The idea for a Reload tool came from way back when the forums where just ablaze with how crummy gunners were and many captains in game would not allow gunners on their ships period. The arguments for that was since everyone had access to normal ammo and all ammo types were just balanced against that with positives and negatives to differentiate them it felt as if most people had 2 ammo types, in other words 2 gunner tools.
So i thought why not give the gunners a separate tool that wasn't an ammo similarly to how pilot tools include the spy glass and rangefinder. One idea that was not my own was to make a buff tool that was purely offensive for the gunner, called "the charger" i think, where buffing the guns improved them and buffing the hull electrically charged it so when you rammed another ship you would release the charge for extra damage, though i cant remember if there was any ideas on what it could do for engines or balloon, then again not sure it would need to do something for those as the gunners job is not to run around buffing.
I figured something that helped with reloading the weapons would be well suited to them. It could be a handheld tool just like an engineers where every hit speeds up the reloading temporarily effectively shortening the reload time by like 1/2 a second per hit or something, not alot but enough to make a difference. But then i imagined everyone on a ship taking it and turning one heavy gun into a very fast reloading weapon. An easy solution to that would be to make it so it does not stack so there is no point in everyone cranking on the same gun.
personally i prefer to keep my aim trained while reloading the weapon, provided nothing needs fixing, as it makes it easier to adjust shots when shooting afar so i wanted to make it so you could use it while still sitting on the gun. In my mind it kept the tool simple and working like other gunner tools as well.
Anyway the point of this post was not to argue your opinion it was to explain my thought process on the reload tool that i still bring up even though Muse has given me a response that they do not like it.