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Adinnieken said:

Really?
A ship has eighteen engines.  All connected to a single driveshaft in order to propel a ship.  Another ship has twelve engines but each connect to its own drive shaft.  Each driveshaft has the same four-bladed brass prop of the same weight and bearing as the others. 

This analogy would be cool if your ships had anything to do with current consoles. Unfortunately the analogy does not apply. There are a lot of what-ifs involved we don't really know about (until someone comes really forth and explains the inner workings of the SoCs). In your own picture, what if the drive shafts are not powerful enough to actually drive all the engines? What if you don't have enough engineers (remember you only have six at max) to see that all the drive shafts are engaged? What if you don't have enough oil throughput per second to drive the engines?

So many questions, so few answers. Actually some of the answers are there to see and explain, but I've grown tired of correcting people about their misconceptions. In the end, It's just like people constantly chanting the "only in 13 countries" mantra. I've corrected those people in probably in a dozen threads. Completely in vain, only to see the same nonsense repeated again and again just a few posts down the line/a few threads later.

So I leave you in peace with your magical ship with twelve engines and twelve shafts and 48 blades ( and by golly, damn those numbers sound like a misterxmedia blog fantasy...)