Also, those ridiculous armor multipliers would be nice as a thing of the past.
Gimme a break, multiplying armor on low-level NPCs is good - they'd get equally useful everywhere. Not the way it is now - in NY you kill NPCs by the gazillions (lv 1 starflea anyone?) and in Tau 37 you get lv 18 Sabres, which have (from what I see) About twice more armor a player-operated Sabre can have at best. They aren't that bad, the absolute record are wild Wraths in omega 58. I won't even mention the Scorpion gunboats...