User blog comment:TheAlphatheOmega/FLYING SHIP CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM/@comment-99.244.85.249-20140614000307

The "big weapons" category doesn't really work in its current state. Ships regularly have >40 MCM silos or in excess of 50 aircraft, and yet these are in the same category as things like doomsday cannons and 204cm guns, which are far less numerous on ships in the same size range. Consequently, carrier vessels and/or ships with large MCM batteries would end up ranking far higher than they should. For example (not taking other categories into account, only the "big weapons"), my Shade would be classified as having class 11 weaponry despite the fact that it's primarily a command ship (not meant for direct combat) and would be destroyed in literally one shot by a true Class 11 like the Narada.