I have seen too many RPs die because people argued over unnecessary details, or spent eons writing huge sheets that go into irrelevant information that they're never going to even talk about IC. What matters is telling a good story in IC. Spending too much time doing anything else just bogs RPs down and eventually kills them, sometimes before they even take off.

As for the gun thing - If I am completely honest, the gun thing is what bothers me the most. That, I think, was the thing that made my ship unique from the others. Not to mention that (combined with the stealth drive) it's what makes it like a submarine, which is another thing that set it apart from the rest.