What I think I will do is to treat the two FX mounts together as firing only 3 dice, the CD weapons as firing 3 dice and the AX weapons as firing 3 also.  If I need to shoot at 6 different targets, a rare event, I will will treat these mains as if they were:  FX5 FX6 CD5 CD6 AX5 AX6  wich will give nine dice. The reason this ship has 12 weapons and only 9 dice is because a made the BAS .75 to give this ship with twelve 12"TLCs less firepower than the bigger ships that have twelve 14"T-LCs and 12 dice.
Sometimes I overcomplicate things... :ugeek:

Having a trait more than once is NOT allowed.

Combining Dx2 and Dx3 is marginally acceptable.

Hello everyone,
I have just skimmed thru the 11 pages of this thread looking for, but not finding the multiplier for the New Arcs 
PS, & RT.
Could someone who knows them let me know?  I would appreciated it.
Cheers  8-)

CD = 1.16
RT = 2.04

Thanks for the quick reply,
Y'all rock!   

Have the costs of any of the weapon traits, arcs, ranges, or thrust, hull, armor increased in the last several days on the Drydock?
I logged in this morning and checked one of my ships and noticed that its Crat had increased from 470 to 494 almost overnight.  The design I refer to is the "Arizona" design that I made a week ago and posted in the B-Basin on July 22.  This latest version that is on the 'Basin I copied & pasted from this Drydock program.  Then I checked all of my other large DNs and all of them have increased in Crat by 19 to 30.  The larger ships have increased the most in Crat.  Even all of my DDs now have a larger Crat. 
Have changes been made to the program?  If so, I will either need to reprint all these ships or just hand-write the higher Crat. in. 
My friends and I are having a lot of fun with this game as we try to out-design eachother, and out-manuever eachother.. 8-)
I am playing Starmada today.  My friends will probably be using the same ships they have used for a while so today's games won't be a problem. 
Cheers

<2 Hours Later>  I figured the cost increase by noting that the DSz & BCS with the same armor value had the same cost increase and out by manipulating the design of the "Arizona".  (It has 31 Hull & 42 Armor).  When I change the design to 74 Hull & Zero armor, the cost drops to 435.  It seems that Armor now costs more than hull.  When I changed the the design to 24 hull and 50 armor the cost went into the lower 500s.  I am courious, why does armor cost more than hull now?  I calculate that armor now costs 1.35 times more per box than hull.  Its good to be a math teacher sometimes.  Let me know if this is a permanant change. :?:
Cheers (again<LOL>)

Here is a redesign of my "Arizona" class DNs, featuring an equal amount of hull & armor:

    USS ARIZONA  Crat=485
   37 Hull + 37 Armor ( = 25 Ablative Armor)
   THRUST [5][4][3][2][1]    WEAPONS [_][1][2][3][4]
   ECM [_][_][_][_][_] SHIELDS [_][_][_][_][_]
    Fire Control; Fragile Systems
   WEAPONS   ARCS     RANGE       ATTACK DICE   -4     -6    -8    -10
   12× 14 Inch Plasma Guns (Acr/Dx3) [FX4][FX4][AX4][AX4] 6-12-18;    4 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
   4× 5 Inch Turbo-Laser Guns (Acr/Rpt) [PS4][PS4][PS4][PS4] 5-10-15;  4 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
   17× 40 Mm Turbo-Laser Guns (Acr/Rpt) [TT] 1-2-3;      17 12 9 6 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 0
    3× Mass Drivers (Acr/Dx2/Dx3) [CD] 5-10-15;        3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Instead of thinking of this ship as being huge, I prefer to think of it as having a Strong Hull, say the effect of having Reinforced Hull from the earlier versions of Starmada.
This ship can be thought as being a 18.5 Hull ship for size, but with each hull point absorbing two points of damage... 
     Cheers

I dont think the drydock is costing SU for the "Escort" trait/system. Thought it was 2 x TF.

Howdy,

Is there a list of the words the trait section takes?  I'm having trouble entering directional defenses.

I am liking the drydock quite a bit... one question though... when I go over in SUs, it gives me a minus sign and its in red, I get that... today it gave me a minus sign, but the value was "0"... so this is a legal build, right? I can't be over 0 points?

Ok, so I checked around and I don't see anyone else talking about this, but the drydock doesn't seem to be working for me at all.

When I follow the link in the rulebook it brings everything up fine, but when I try to log in in doesn't seem to go through and when I go to the design section, I can enter things in to the various sections, but when I hit submit, or apply or whatever, it doesn't accept the changes.

I feel like this is something wrong with my browser settings or something since no one else seems to be having these problems, but I've tried it in Chrome, Firefox, and even IE and I have the same trouble. Can anyone think of a reason this might be?

I have noticed no problems with the forum, but the Drydock does appear to be broken... I promise, it wasn't anything I did.

I'll look into it.