EVE General Discussion

he he yours is small. :P

why they look large enough compared to the size of the ship
unless you want ridicilous oversized cartoonish guns on your ship of course

Bigger doesn't mean better , one of the first lessons every new pilot learns the hard way

I think the real question here is why are you fitting guns to your DRONE-NEUT-POTATOBOAT

If you look at it's bonusses you might see it has a turret bonus

The hulls not only support the weapons system but also defenses, energy generation and need a certain structural integrity.

The mass of a ship, and thus the needed effort to maintain structural integrity, energy needed for acceleration and so on, increases to the third power of its length (when increasing the size holding on to the same proportions).
The destructive power needed to seriously "wound" a ship, meaning to penetrate its armor, only increases linearly (thickness of the armor, energy density of the shield since it has to be maintained over a squarish increasing area)

So it's only natural that with bigger ship sizes an increasingly large part of their volume is dedicated to defenses and propulsion compared to offense.

Edit: not even mentioning that the structural integrity usual is a function of the cross-section area of the supporting structures/bars/whatever, which, being a two-dimensional thing, only increases to the second power with the ship's length, when keeping the proportions.
(I believe that's also the reason small animals usually can jump higher compared to their size than larger ones, and there being a upper limit on how big animals can be given the strength muscles can produce and bones can support depending on their cross-section area.)

/madeup science

ok there 2 sides to this yes bs are kind of on the small side.

If you look at wwII battleship's gun they huge vs the hull. But on the other side you only see part of the ship above the water line. now takeing that into account mimmatars have the largest battleship size guns with the 1400's so. here are some stats of real battleship guns.

Armament of the Iowa class battleship.
1". The guns are 66 feet (20 m) long (50 times their 16-inch (410 mm) bore, or 50 calibers from breechface to muzzle). About 43 feet (13 m) protrudes from the gun house. Each gun weighs about 239,000 pounds (108,000 kg) without the breech, or 267,900 pounds (121,500 kg) with the breech.[29] They fire projectiles weighing from 1,900 to 2,700 pounds (850 to 1,200 kg) at a maximum speed of 2,960 ft/s (820 m/s up to 20 miles (32 km). At maximum range, the projectile spends almost 1½ minutes in flight. The maximum firing rate for each gun is two rounds per minute.

Yamato Battleship
Specifications
The waterline length of the Yamato was 256 meters (839 ft 11 inches). The beam was 121 ft or 36.9 m. The draft was 36 ft (equal to 11 m). The propulsion consisted of 12 Kampon boilers that powered 4 steam turbines.

Its main weapons were 18.1-inch / 45 Type 94 naval guns. These were the biggest ever put on a battleship and the Yamato had nine of them. Every gun weighed 147.3 metric tons (equal to 162.4 short tons). Each was also 69.3 ft (21.13 m) long. The guns were capable of shooting up shells 42 km (26 m) away. The size of the Yamato battleship allowed it to be fitted with more weapons.

so 1400's are 3.41463 times bigger then the 410mm bore of a iowa class battleship so 225 feet long is what 1400mm guns should be in size and yet the Yamato were only a hair bigger.

now 225 feet on a mach is nothing vs its 1400meter's long so no matter what even 1400s would look small. given if brokeing down in feet the mach is 44917.586 feet long the guns would only be less then 3% of the ship size. so even the largest battship build in the real world the Yamato was only 839 feet long.

now rails,blaster and lasers are diffent weapon types dont need to be as large to handle fireing given lasers are light based weapons and rails and blaster use a diffent tect the say 1400s witch have to be build to withstand the fireing of a round so.

So lasers, blasters and rails dont have to be as large say maybe 3/4 to 1/2 the size of 1400's if you wish to base gun size based on that you end up with smaller guns then you have now.

WTF you all talking about? Bigger gunz = more awesome....

Also...



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that was my thought too. they are slowly untangling some of the relocated undocumented spagetti code from back when eve was new. it will be quite amazing when they get through it all and have a "new" up to date product pretty much.

Its not about size, its about how you use it :\