maybe there is an better way of showing it, but we will never get guns placed on the wrong positions again
I have never felt Shipbucket itself should have educational responsibility to teach the kids some of the very basics of ship-engineering. I don't want to give them free pass, I want them to suffer with foreing language manuals and boring historic journals as much as I have
If someone doesen't know that a turreted gun usually takes deck-penetration, I think he should not be drawing warships on serious level.
Well, I agree that someone who doesn't recognize the need for penetration is probably in the wrong place. However, I think there's a difference between educating on
concepts and educating on
specifics. Some years after I've begun drawing these systems seriously, I still have not happened upon an open-literature source for the exact below-decks dimensions of the USN Mk 26 GMLS family. I've done a number of isometric scaling exercises, none terribly satisfying. It's in my own personal interest to broadcast to the world the extent of my own knowledge, both so other folks won't
screw it up horribly AND in hopes that someone more knowledgeable than myself might correct me. The education is never completely one-way, no matter how much we may think we know.
We ought not belabor ourselves with the most obvious of facts, but if there is an easy and low-pixel-count way of showing our current knowledge, I would surely endorse it. Not as a requirement, but as encouragement. My own example, thought it may be somewhat excessive:
As best I can figure, 22 pixels wide, 22 pixels deep, with lengths associate by Mark number.
I mean, you can't show the associated missiles in that height. Are we really in the business of restrictinge information? That doesn't make any sense to me. I won't do some whiny kid's research for him, but I won't tell him to 'GO FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF YOU STUPID KID' either. If I know something, why not share it?
In my opinion, there is a happy medium between 'GO FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF YOU STUPID KID' and 'LET ME DO ALL OF YOUR WORK FOR YOU'. I'd phrase it something like: 'This is what I know; I encourage you to do your own additional research and give me rational arguments if you come to a different understanding'.