DescentBB

Is there any way to make a ship with more than 8 gunpoints? (Without modifying the actual game code)

As far as I know, there isn't. But why would you need more than 8? It should be more than enough for most weapons.

Without editing the code, there isn't really a way.

I have a ship edited that looks like a gunboat, it has 16 lasers on the nose, a vulcan cannon on the left, a shotgun on the right, and an 8 battery missle rack on top.
I was hoping to make a round out of ships that are all like that and call it "clash of the titans".
oh well :\

Probably best to make the batteries and such sub-objects, and make your own turrets out of them. Your talking a lot of work, though. It's not always the practical work, but the tweaking that comes afterward.