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Ship Suggestions - Jellyfish - Or something like it...

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N-Sunderland:
Hmm... You'd be able to have an engineer camp the top deck, have a second engineer on the middle deck, and a gunner on the bottom. It'd be much less OP, but I think it would still be too easy to crew on.

-Muse- Cullen:
That is what I imagined when I wrote that response, actually. Great sketch, and good job interpreting my text wall! :D

However, like N-Sunderland said, one crewman per tier, plus the pilot, would make each person's job very straightforward, which I didn't take into consideration. If there were obstacles on-board the ship that made moving around a sort of chore, that wouldn't solve the person-per-floor problem. If each person's job was spread over more than one floor, that could solve it.

I suck at drawing, but I definitely do better with brainstorming by doing so... so here ya are- I took much longer than I care to admit to draw this.


(I forgot to add the third ladder, but I already uploaded it. Oh darn.)

I drew this up trying to spread out the jobs as much as possible, without it being completely unfeasible. The hull is by itself, save for a rear-facing gun. If that rear-facing gun could have a crossing weapon arc with the left-firing gun, it would definitely be balanced- the hull always needs someone, and the ship would want to take advantage of that gun's crossing arc, so they would want a gunner there, too. Pulling double duty would lead to difficulty, so this might be a good choice.

If the lowest deck had the balloon and the right-facing gun, which overlaps with the other gun's arc, this could also give that gunner the extra duty to nurse the balloon. The balloon was a difficult choice, though. If it was up on its own platform, or out of the way in any sort of fashion, it would require someone to go out of their way to repair it, not simply whack it in route to their next duty. This would give the engineers a choice- go gun, or go out of their way to help that balloon. This balloon could be anywhere, I suppose.

And the helm doesn't face the way where the most DPS can take place. That will take skillful piloting, and not simply an 'easy-mode activate full throttle forward' sort of deal.

Whatdayathink?

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