More generally, torpedoes have always taken up interior space. It's in every ship diagram: It's a little red room with a launcher thingy and a bunch of torpedoes stored.
So... The Stingray's average damage was 1.8 before the refit, and 2.25 after. And the Skate's average damage is 4.1. So torpedoes aside, we have a choice between Stingray-like firepower and Skate-like firepower. (The NX-class has 6.25, and the Thunderchild 14.2)
Yeah, I think average damage on par with the Skate is wholly reasonable. The Skate is still ludicrously superior in combat from her maneuverability and alpha damage, so similar DEW firepower is ok.
Nope, it is intended to survey the space that makes now up the Federation. Large parts of it aren't a propper survey yet. That's it.
Not particularly IMO, these were supposed to be meant for relatively safer assignments. Self defense armament in case something comes for them for whatever reason, but these probably shouldn't be seeking out fights.
This is strange to me and the constraints of textual communication have me running into 'might be a dick' when I look at my first impulse on how to community my perplexity:
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Eyes glazing over and past designs mounting dual engines in the rear of the saucer.
Thank you for adding this up. Seriously.
I'm not entirely sure I'm adding correctly. The last time we got an industry count was after we selected our saucer design. I don't know if it's changed since then, or why the civilian industry is so much higher than for anything else, including our battleship.
This is strange to me and the constraints of textual communication have me running into 'might be a dick' when I look at my first impulse on how to community my perplexity:
It's one thing to argue that a piece of textual information might mean different things, but the words 'The space may be better used for other systems as well' can only mean 'torpedoes take up space that can be used for other useful things', and can not mean 'torpedoes do not take up space that can be used for other useful things'.
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The.... argument[?], as you stated, then comes down to 'does the QM's words outside of the voting options mean anything at all in terms of mechanics', and I feel they do, one argument in favour of that being true being:
'if the words are meaningless, then why would the QM choose words that would cause some players to think that the torpedoes take up space that can be used for other things, rather than literally any other possible sequence of words?'
While I agree with you, I'd take the better engines. The phasers are already mentioned to have worse firing arcs, and with less maneuverability, we'll need more coverage, which would be more expensive than just getting the better engines.
And mean a lone B'rel is an existential threat. No thank you.
Ok, follow-up question: why does this design break so far free of the usual civilian industry costs? (Closer to 20 than 10). Second follow-up question, will we have a second vote where we decide on adding shields, and would that be additional Starfleet industry? That's very relevant information for adding the phasers.
