(05-31-2014, 04:21 PM)Corundum Wrote: Weapons, regardless of where on the ship they are, still contribute to the total ship mass.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Cargo space =/= total mass.
We're talking about how much volume you have on the inside of the ship, not how much mass the entirety of the ship is.
In aerospace engineering mass matters way more than the volume. Otherwise your spacecraft won't take off. That's why our space vehicles have their payload measured in kilograms and not in cubic meters.
Are people that naive to think 5000 units of Gold take the same volume as 5000 units of Water?
It's pretty much obvious that if you attach more stuff on the outside of the ship you are limiting the amount of stuff you can put in the cargo hold before reaching the maximum allowed mass of the ship.
Also, you conveniently skipped the part when turrets are just the visible parts of the installed weapon systems with more components inside the ship. I suggest you read more than 1-2 posts.
I wonder why people aren't whining that armor occupies cargo space too. After all it's just additional hull plating, not something you put in the cargo hold, right?
Still in doubt? Just apply Disco logic where ships fly slower than airplanes and planets are several kilometers in diameter.
