(05-31-2014, 05:15 PM)Geolog Wrote: Eh, we can go like this forever... I will make one more attempt to explain.
Those guns are on the hull of the ship, maybe in some rums on the ship and spare compartments. But under no circumstances can you mix ''Cargo space'' with those spare compartments and small empty places on the ship. ''Cargo space'' is the place where you store your commodities for transporting not the place where you will place your guns with which you want to shoot.
Now to test your logic:
You want to put guns in cargo space, tell me how will you shoot with them from inside of the ship? Will you make a big hole in the ships armor and destroy your own ship in process of shooting enemy ship?
I will try this simply. A Cargo Ship can mount a Freighter Shield and use no cargo capacity. The original design of the ship, for arguments sake, was for all the Machinery, Electronics and Electrical Gear to mounted internally. The Cargo Space available is 5000. The shield capacity is somewhere in the 20-29k capacity of protection.
Now I want to change my ship to having a Shield that has a capacity, of protection, of 100k. This is 3-5 times more capacity than it had before.
The shield Generator is probably a lot larger. The Cables that run the power to all the external projectors probably need to be increased. The external Projectors need to upgraded. The equipment that is connect, internally, to these projectors need to be up graded. All of this possibly requires more space than was originally given when the ship is built. The only available space is the Cargo Space to mount all the extra equipment in.
As for guns. Yes they are mounted externally. But as I said previously all of the machinery and other equipment needed to power these guns must be placed somewhere. These guns aren't miraculously attached to the outside without needing support and power. Normal Guns (ones that were designed to be fitted to the ship) don't take up cargo space. The bigger and better guns (that the designers didn't make allowance for) need space to mount all the extra requirements for those guns.
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