I'm real happy with your mod, and I have something for you that may help. I noticed the violent shaking of the battleships when "going to" or "docking" with anything, so I decided to play around. What I found was by increasing the nudge_force, the shaking stops. I changed it from 3,000,000 to 300,000,000. The downside is that the ship tends to not want to stop turning as easily. Still I figured I'd pass this along in case you didn't know.
Also, if I equip any gunboats with gunboat turrets, they crash Freelancer. They can use the beam turrets, just not the regular ones.
So far, I find the cruisers to be the most fun for cap ship jockeys, since they're just maneuverable enough to go through most asteroid fields, with manual flight control. Do you think there is any way to decrease the force of asteroids hitting the larger ships?
Keep it up guys, I look forward to the next version! =)