dyoano wrote:you should remove even more flak cannons. the amount you have right now is enough to effectively completely neutralize incoming fire from an enemy ship of the same class, as well as most other balanced ships (and definitely all the stock ones). usually, 6 cleverly placed flak turrets on a ship your size is more than enough - any more, and it'll usually be totally unscathed in battle :[
You, sir, are an idiot. Ever since the advent of customizable weapons, statements like this are completely ungrounded, unless the stats of every weapon are posted. How do you know the autocannons don't have a lower interceptibility, a higher rate of fire, faster bullets. The flak cannons could have low accuracy, they could be fixed emplacements, their range can be small enough to barely reach the edge of the ship, et cetera. In short, you have no knowledge to base your statement on. Besides, since "balance" is such an arbitrary term, it's pointless trying to argue for it unless it's been defined for the occasion. I will agree that there are too many flaks, but only from an aesthetic viewpoint, since there is not nearly enough information to effectively assume any other.
As for the ship itself, I don't really have much positive to say. It's hull consist mostly of a few sections tiled over and over. The colors are neither coherent nor well-matched, and there are so many weapons that it looks spammed. There are also unexplained holes about a third of the way up from the back that don't appear to serve any purpose and make that portion of the ship look very flimsy.
With a proper color scheme and better section usage this could be interesting, but as it is it needs improvement.
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