refinement

docs/content_design.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ and makes them trivially moddable through the config files alone.
 | L-shape (3 cells) | weapon_stabilizer, weapon_primer, weapon_upgrade | frigate |
 | 2x2 | laser_cannon_m, drone_bay | cruiser |
 | 3x3 | laser_cannon_l | battleship |
-| 2x6 | drone_hangar | dreadnought / carrier |
+| 2x6 | drone_hangar | carrier (only) |
 
 ### Hull grids
 
@@ -69,26 +69,30 @@ gun) and any 2x6 area (no drone hangar).
     XOOOOX
     XXOOXX
 
-**battleship (l, 20 cells)** — 5 wide, so at most ONE 3x3 l gun fits, and
-mounting it consumes nearly half the grid, leaving only narrow strips for
-supports. Without an l gun it flexibly fits several m guns. Too narrow for a
-drone hangar.
+**battleship (l, 24 cells)** — broadside hull with notched flanks on every
+other row. Fits four 2x2 m guns (two per gun deck) — one more than the
+battlecruiser — with bow, stern, and flank cells for supports. All 3x3
+placements crowd the center columns, so at most ONE l gun fits: mounted
+center it blocks every m gun mount (pure support strips remain), mounted
+offset it still allows two m guns. The notched rows are never adjacent-and-
+full, so no 2x6 drone hangar fits.
 
-    XOOOX
-    OOOOO
-    OOOOO
-    OOOOO
-    XOXOX
+    XOOOOX
+    OOOOOO
+    XOOOOX
+    OOOOOO
+    XOOOOX
 
-**dreadnought (xl, 42 cells)** — 11-wide, 3-deep main battery deck: three 3x3
-l guns fit side by side with spacer columns to spare, plus bow/stern strips
-for supports. Wide enough for a drone hangar too, if the player wants to
-trade a gun battery for one.
+**dreadnought (xl, 36 cells)** — the main battery deck is split into three
+3x3 gun slots by structural spacer columns, so exactly three l guns fit side
+by side (or m guns / supports in unused slots), plus bow/stern strips for
+supports. The spacers cap every horizontal run at 5 cells, so the 2x6 drone
+hangar can never fit — the carrier stays the only hangar hull.
 
     XXXOOOOOXXX
-    OOOOOOOOOOO
-    OOOOOOOOOOO
-    OOOOOOOOOOO
+    OOOXOOOXOOO
+    OOOXOOOXOOO
+    OOOXOOOXOOO
     XXOOXXXOOXX
 
 **carrier (xl, 37 cells)** — the top flight deck (rows 0–1) is the only
@@ -115,12 +119,12 @@ all placements):
 | 1x3 | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
 | L-shape | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
 | 2x2 | | | | x | x | x | x | x |
-| 3x3 | | | | | | x | x | x* |
-| 2x6 | | | | | | | x | x |
+| 3x3 | | | | | | x | x | |
+| 2x6 | | | | | | | | x |
 
-\* dreadnought only; the carrier's elevator shafts block all 3x3 placements.
-Max disjoint l guns: battleship 1, dreadnought 3. Max disjoint m guns:
-cruiser 2, battlecruiser 3.
+Maximum simultaneous (disjoint) placements: m guns — cruiser 2,
+battlecruiser 3, battleship 4; l guns — battleship 1, dreadnought 3;
+drone hangar — carrier 1.
 
 ## Deliberate placeholders / open questions for later passes