oook, I think I understand. 

so there is no upper limit to how many hardpoints an entity can have? hardpoint: points from which the weapon is fired

AH. 80 point per weapon spling in 20 (front, rear, left, right) right?

for a total of 80x5=400?

and each hardpoint, accordingly to the weapon properties, can fire for front, left right and rear targets?

Some of my ships that are equivalent to vanilla LRM's have 130-166 guns...

Don't have an ingame shot atm, but here's the revised Razzador.

And the Warlord frigate, which is one of the smallest non-fighter Warlord ships.

Every single gun has at least one. For ships exceeding 20 turrets of one type or of a certain scale facing a direction I take shortcuts.

The triple-barrel powergun weapons on the Razzador use one hardpoint and fire in a burst.

I don't have any code. Sins doesn't support code, only basic ini edits. All of my hardpoints are done in 3ds max, and I am not releasing any of those files.

burst firing is attached to the projectile weapon defs. Iskatu is a premier model artist, so his work is closely guarded.

here's some GameInfo for the Kol:

Weapon
    WeaponType "Projectile"
    damageEnums
        AttackType "CAPITALSHIP"
        DamageAffectType "AFFECTS_SHIELDS_AND_HULL"
        DamageApplyType "BACKLOADED"
        DamageType "PHYSICAL"
        WeaponClassType "AUTOCANNON"
    DamagePerBank:FRONT 27.000000
    DamagePerBank:BACK 49.500000
    DamagePerBank:LEFT 49.500000
    DamagePerBank:RIGHT 27.000000
    Range 5000.000000
    PreBuffCooldownTime 4.500000
    CanFireAtFighter FALSE
    SynchronizedTargeting FALSE
    PointStaggerDelay 1.000000
    TravelSpeed 4000.000000
    Duration 0.000000
    fireConstraintType "CanAlwaysFire"
    WeaponEffects
        weaponType "Projectile"
        burstCount 15
        burstDelay 0.060000
        muzzleEffectName "Weapon_TechCapitalAutoCannonHeavy_Muzzle"
        muzzleSoundMinRespawnTime 0.770000
        muzzleSounds
            soundCount 3
            sound "WEAPON_TECHCAPITALAUTOCANNONHEAVY_MUZZLE"
            sound "WEAPON_TECHCAPITALAUTOCANNONHEAVY_MUZZLE_ALT1"
            sound "WEAPON_TECHCAPITALAUTOCANNONHEAVY_MUZZLE_ALT2"
        hitEffectName "Weapon_TechCapitalAutoCannonHeavy_Hit"
        hitHullEffectSounds
            soundCount 1
            sound "WEAPONIMPACT_PHYSICALHEAVY_HITHULL"
        hitShieldsEffectSounds
            soundCount 1
            sound "WEAPONIMPACT_GENERICHEAVY_HITSHIELDS"
        projectileTravelEffectName "Weapon_TechCapitalAutoCannonHeavy_Travel"

I've bolded out the burst snippet...

15 shots per burst, a delay of 0.06 seconds between shots, and a cooldown of 4.5 seconds per burst.

I really suspect that you haven't peered into the gameinfo files much

The burst is just graphical. Almost all of the lines in those weapon texts are just graphical. Damage isn't synced to effects in the slightest.

It determines whether or not all projectiles have a synchronized target. If it's set to false then your weapon can fire on multiple targets (like starbases can) or your weapon will impact different spots on the target (e.g. some of your lasers may hit the front of the target while others will hit the mid or aft section).

That's my understanding of it at least, true means that all weapon particles hit the same specific point, thus eliminating any possible multi targetting. The other thread you were posting in (https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/442694/page/2/#3436831) had much better information than I can provide, or so I would expect.

It will only affect damage if you set it to TRUE and the ship can engage multiple targets per bank. Most of the time it does not though, because the vast majority of Sins units can only fire on one target per bank.