You are already getting a free PF upgrade, since everyone else's are getting downgraded.
The 2 hp's on Stingers is so they are not the total bitch of drone fighters. In SFB it was completely the opposite, because they had chaff, didn't waste their gatlings on range 14 shots, and had a DFR of 4.
And just how many drone fighters do you usually encounter on the average server?
Because it seems to me that if it takes 8 extra hits to kill a squad of 4 fighters, thats a few extra PH1 hits above and beyond
what they should have to do in order for a Lyran ship to eliminate a group. Seeing as how pretty much every Hydran ship carries the fighters
you're OK with disadvantaging arguably 90% (number completely pulled out of my ass) of the Lyran/Hydran fights, as well as any Klingon/ Hydran
fight that doesn't involve drone fighters.
And SFB doesn't hugely apply. as I've been told that (apparently) Lyran PF's work great in that game because you can concentrate
the disrupter fire (?). And of course those ph2's are also often fired at excessive range.
Hexx the righteous.