Armor Upgrades ....

[Eternal]

Something came to my mind the other when I was commanding my battleship. I started to imagine how exactly should , within roll play , a ship of any kind be fitted with stronger and more durable set of armor. I imagined huge hull plates being added to support the main frame of the ship , thus giving it more toughness. Thing is , thats not the case with what I see ingame. People just want the Biggest and Most expencive armor upgrade they can get there hands on. Because , speaking from a Battleships perspective , the more armor you have - The better.

Armor has become the basic thing you need to succesfully execute a PvP encounter and in 99.9% of the times , armor upgrade is what desides wich Capital ship will win. The one with the more armor usually wins , no matter what. Well , I for one don't think that it should be like that. This thing makes the game ... boring ... because it's a classical mesure of how much time you have spended on your trader to get 4.00 to your BH BB. Armor upgrades give so much to there owner without any drawback !? Fitting a ship with so much more extra weight should ... significantly remove some of it's manuvarability.

Armor types of lower ranks are vurtually worthless , no one uses them because they do not provide anything better then the highter armor upgrades.

I suggest that ships , when bought and without any armor upgrades have more agility. When armor upgrades are added to the ship , it becomes heavier and harder to fly around. So people will have to consider the heavy protection vs. agility matter.

Whats your opinion in this matter ?

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