Wes said:
The "rule of thumb" is that regardless of how many guns you put on a ship, anything more than twice the ship's SP is not counted. So, for example, if the ship has 25 SP, the maximum DR is 50 against one target in one turn.
In that case, seeing as this is classified as a Battleship, which, according to the Damage Rating wiki pages, means its SP is a base 50, as heavy armored modifies at a 1.0 rate. So, by the rule of thumb, it can have 100 DR of attack at any giving point/turn.
A little time on a calculator, and:
Twin multiphase cannon turrets: 8, SDR 2-4 (24 for the sake of addition)
Quadruple plasma lance turrets: 20, SDR 4 (80)
NAM Twin Plasma Turret: 20, SDR 3 (60)
NAM Massed Positron Array: 30, SDR 2 (60)
Heavy Penetrating Vulcan: 40, DR 1 (40)
NAM Curbstomper Mark II Torpedo System: 6, DR Variable (24 for the sake of addition)
NAM Extended Rack Missile System: 72, DR Variable (NAM minimissiles do not do ship-class damage, so 0)
For all guns firing at the same time, it adds up to 288 damage "in one turn".
Keep in mind, however, that the weapons on this ship are designed and placed in 3 direction; the fore, port and starboard. Divided evenly (assuming the guns are divided evenly; I'm just going on assumption here), it's under the 100 DR allowance at any given point when going ship to ship. Likewise, the Primus cannot bring all its weapons to bear on a single target; only a third of its total guns, at most.
For this sort of design, though, you'll want Sigma's actual input, not mine. I asked Sigma for a big bruiser, and he delivered it to me; the specifics of that design I leave up to him.
Wes said:
I agree with Ira that this feels uninspired and the lack of art is a big part of that. In the submission form in the OP, it says the faction requires art. So where is it? Thanks Ira for being brave and saying something.
I actually thought there WAS art for this at one point. Will have to wait for Sigma's answer. I know he showed me a basic rendered ship prior to submitting this.
Wes said:
The section between Ship Systems and Armored Hull and Hull Integrated Systems is empty. Most of the other sections could use some more beef to them. We want this to be something people can easily use in the RP.
Maybe I'm mistaken... but in this article, there
isn't anything between Ship Systems and Armored Hull and Hull Integrated Systems. Ship Systems is the category and Armored Hull and Hull Integrated Systems is the first article under that category. What is missing?
And while I agree that descriptions are a bit bare-bones, I thought we were trying to lean our submissions towards heavily using wiki links rather than writing out unique descriptions? In fact, I'm
positive that this was the direction we were told to take in regards to things like ship systems and such.
If we want to forgo that, I'm fine with it, but it would be nice to know which sections actually need their own unique flavor text as opposed to referring to the basic starship component pages we made for this purpose.