Look for these two values under the weapons of each ship you want to modify:

burstCount 15
burstDelay 0.060000

Burst cound is how many particle effects are "shot", and burst delay is the delay between each burst. Changing these does NOT change the weapon's damage, it is purely a visual effect. If you want to change damage, change:

DamagePerBank:FRONT 27.000000
DamagePerBank:BACK 49.500000
DamagePerBank:LEFT 49.500000
DamagePerBank:RIGHT 27.000000
Range 5000.000000
PreBuffCooldownTime 4.500000

Pretty self explanatory. Damage per bank is how much damage that weapon does on each side of the ship (this data is for the Kol's autocannon), and PreBuffCooldown is the weapon cooldown.

Download the mod tools for 1.05 (click the downloads button on top of the page). Inside is a Documentation folder, read through the SINS_modset.pdf included there so you understand how mods work.

The file for the Kol is CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP.entity in the GameInfo folder Use the files in the mod pack, because the game files themselves are in binary.

save it as a text document, then manually change the extension.

That's fine, the game will load the text files

Yup. Mods will not work with the beta patch.

I'm actually very interested in this, mainly because I think it's silly to see a spacebattle, without constant streams of bullets.  Call me a rambo fan, but I like the idea of massive ammounts of ammo being put out with little effect.

Sad thing is, I think theres a cap to it. 

Changing the colony ship's weapon layout to

weaponType "Projectile"
        burstCount 8
        burstDelay 0.000000

I expected a stream of projectiles,  what I got was a normal exchange rate between the guns.

I am still working on it, tweaking it here and there, but I would appriciate some help.  I want a MG for those autoturrets. Not some rifle.

Also note that the number is in seconds, so 1.000000 is one second.

    WeaponEffects
        weaponType "Projectile"
        burstCount 20
        burstDelay 0.900000

Even at this count and delay, I still have the regular old trade of fire.  To be honest, I'm not seeing a difference.  I even changed the weapon cooldown count a little, and still no difference.

Which weapon specifically are you trying to modify?

Generally speaking, if you want continuous fire, your burstCount * burstDelay should be about equal to preBuffCooldown (the weapon cooldown).

The laser battery on the TEC Colony ship.

I've tried to have it have NO burstDelay, but it still fired at it's normal rate. I tried to have a LONG burstDelay, to see if it's the individual shots that the burstDelay affected, but still, barely anything changed.   I'm going to try to have a very very low burstDelay, and see what happens.  I know that changing the burstCount DOES change the number of shots shown, since I have some very pretty Vasari missle barrages, however, I'm still not certain, but pretty sure theres a cap on the burstDelay.

PreBuffCooldownTime 4.000000
    CanFireAtFighter FALSE
    SynchronizedTargeting FALSE
    PointStaggerDelay 0.400000
    TravelSpeed 4000.000000
    Duration 0.000000
    WeaponEffects
        weaponType "Projectile"
        burstCount 20
        burstDelay 0.000001

This was the setting I used. No change.  I'm begining to wonder if it's how I set up my mod.   I'm very new at modding, and have very little previous experience, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing it right.

I'm going to change the PreBuffCooldownTime down to a low setting, and see if that changes the rate of fire.

Annatar, sorry didnt see your post, I'm trying to get rid of the "Tradeing of shots" scenes.  I think it's perfectly fine to have two ships OF THE SEAS to trade cannon fire, but when you add in hyperdrives and autocannons, I expect it to be a little more streamlined.  When a battleship leads a charge, I dont want to see it shoot one round, and then pass the enemy lines, only to find itself turning for four minutes, just to shoot one more round.   I want to see a Death Blossum raking through the enemy fleet.  If I were in that lightly armoured LRM and ordered to get behind the BS, I would just hit the eject button if my lead ship simply waved to that vasari worm as he floated on by.

Alright, I changed the TEC Colony ship to have both it's Autocannons AND it's Laser batteries (The ones that fire from the port and starboard sides) to have a Low burstDelay and high burstCount.  Neither weapon reacted as if it has been injected with LSD. 

I'm going to check if it's just how I'm saving the changes, and if it's reading off the mod, not the vanilla game.