Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30638561-20131030195810/@comment-24108228-20131104232003

You don't seem to get how powerful and expensive cannons are. To fire a cannon with an explosive shot takes 14 coal, 3 sulphur and 4 iron. Totalling to 21 ores, that is one shot of our cannon. This is a figure that needs changing, but as it stands, a bomb needs 12 ores, gunpowder needs 5, and a cannonball needs 4. That makes 21. To place one of those on a ship is going to be rather pointless, as the cost to actually use it will be far greater than the cost to simply make/buy some mithril tools and beat them up the old fashioned way.

Now, as cannons are expensive, they also have extreamly high explosive power. It will destroy a medival wall, so if it was launched at a forge or hut, the remains would go flying and probably damage other buildings, so a large chunk of them are unusable due to them being ripped apart by speeding chunks of building. So to use a cannon on a boat you must have two things.
 * Firstly, you must be very, very rich.
 * Secondly you must hate them beyond comprehension.

So as a result, adding the ability to put cannons on boats would be pointless, as so little people would find use it would must be a pain to add. And if you do have a cannon on a boat, people are going to ragequit. Now if enough people ragequit, that server will stop getting people joining due to a lack of people on the server. Your foes will leave, your allies will get bored, and you will end up alone. With a powerful weapon, and nobody to use it on. How boring.