Ship Design Questions

[Cyclopsslayerr]

Several ships have misleading slot numbers. The hull and design of the Zenox Fleet Destroyer show 7 engine slots, but the ship is limited to 6 engines at most.
Fighters having 3 engine slots can only use 2 of them.

I suspect that it might be happening due to a limited number of ships models, but then why not simply limit the designer to the 6 allowable engines and not display a phantom 7th?

[Lunalis]

they have one engine more because of symetry.

lets say they have 7 engines:
OOO O OOO

now if you start adding engines to the design it goes for example like this.

OOO X OOO
OOX O XOO
OOX X XOO
OXX O XXO
OXX X XXO
XXX O XXX

with X being the engine.
so with every even amount of engines they go to the side and dont use the middle slot.
and when the engines are uneven they use the middle slot for one.

[Cyclopsslayerr]

Hmm, so it is modeling based, but just how I thought it would be. Thank you.
It was causing a kind of "buy a carton of eggs and get 11 eggs in it" feeling.