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armor decreasing agility is not possible.... I think Igiss wrote about it a while ago.
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armor taking weapon slots is a bad idea.... what would that do with ships that already have a few hardpoints?... LFs with 4 slots for example? , Greyhound with 4, Wrath/Guardian with 5 ? On the other hand say a Sabre (7) will suddenly get a big advantage.
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as it looks now the easiest would be armor decrease... not completely to vanilla levels but say to 1.5 armor upgrade max.
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all vanilla ships die from single nuke/sunslayer already...cannonball usually takes some 70% of their hull. One nuke on Raven's Talon take some 1/3 of the hull.... :(
Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.