Discourage? I wouldn't say that. But the armament ratings, defense rating, speed, manoeuvrability, hangar size strengths and weaknesses together make it nice and easy to take in a ship pretty quickly.
No one will be prevented from listing out their weapons, or showing them by arc (which I love seeing done), or splitting out by type. I enjoy tinkering with different loadouts, but then no one ever read a star wars novel and had the precise number of heavy, dual turbolasers mounted on an ISDII spelled out in tedious detail.
Ships should be relatively accessible for writers to read the submission fairly quickly and understand the intention, its strengths and weaknesses. Submissions aren't just for the submitter, other people have to read and use them too.
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