Armor Upgrades ....

[chopper]

I'd just go with this :

Bigger armor = more mass
Lower armor = less mass.

Capital ships would be able to choose - mobility or armor.
For example, most logical choice for an Osiris would be to use it's strafe potential.
While Rheinland Battleship would go with the armor, since it can't strafe anyway.

Mass doesn't affect responsiveness, someone said it does so I'm just correcting it.
It does affect strafe however, because it's directly connected to acceleration.
Low mass ships can change speeds rapidly, to all directions, meaning strafe too, even reverse.
You can easily check this by leaving your ship in e-kill and seeing how fast it looses speed.
Sabre would loose it's speed really fast, while Virage would need 3x that time to loose the speed to same level.

But as far as I'v heard, you can't assign something like that to an armor upgrade.
It's a nice idea though.

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