Normal sized guns

[Doom]

i personally think that those turrets are way over sized, but that is matter of taste...however lets talk about game performance...

Those turrets must have about 800 to 1000 polys each (at minimum...i an guessing even more). Now take average battleship with 15 turrets and that gives u 15000 polys in turrets only. Now add average battleship poys count of 10000 to that and we now have 25000 polys. But where is one capital ship there is always another. So lets double that- Now we have 50000 polys only on two battleships. Add whole system and rest of the ships...and u get...well...lower frame rate in best case...

Average primary and secondary turrets have from 100 250 polys. Many have even less. Only rare turrets that are not mounted in large numbers have more polys then that (those are infernos, razors mortars etc.)

Its easy to make those turrets in such detail and size (if we can make so detailed ships, turrets are least of our problems). But they are not made/implemented with regard to overall performance.