Editing Advanced Warship Tutorial (section)

==Concept==

Once you know the mission, you need to fix the tonnage of the ship. Fighters have built-in tonnage limits of 500 tons, and gunboats/fast attack craft are limited to 1000 tons. 5-10kt are usual sizes for escorts or smaller ships. You can pick any size you like and have the yards and maintenance facilities for, but it is important that you set one. You can always make a ship larger, but this easily leads to a size creep as you cram in more and more.
When you have your size fixed, decide on what type of weapons and sensors you want to mount to fulfill the intended mission. Keep the number of different systems low, each weapon has different strengths, if you select too many, you end up being mediocre everywhere.