What people meant by using salvage cannons as weapons is that people were attacking unmanned ships and slurping them up while their pilots were offline. Even with a faction module on the ship, it did nothing to stop some enterprising salvage pilot from pulling up to an undocked ship and peeling it apart block by block to pawn off at the nearest shop. THAT is how salvage cannons were weaponized. If the core didn\'t have an active AI or a player in it, it was mining ship fodder.
Now, in order to even do any of that, you have to overheat the ship\'s core. This means blasting a hole in the ship to get at it most of the time, cutting through shields, hull, and anything else in the way, then hammering the ship core til it breaks. You end up tearing apart the big Money Spider you\'re trying to salvage in order to salvage it in the first place. Very messy. Plus if you\'re trying to loot a faction base of any undocked ships, someone\'s gonna hear you firing that massive AMC minigun you\'re using to break your prospective victim\'s shields. Quite possible for you to suddenly get attacked, and then YOUR ship ends up as derelict salvage. It\'s no longer nearly as simple or low-risk-high-reward, anymore. And right now it\'s the only fix Schema can offer.