Armor Upgrades ....

[Tenacity]

It makes sense, the only problem is what happens to cruisers when they try to equip armor.

See, cruisers right now do not have a real agility advantage, but they also dont have the survivability of a battleship. they're like gunboats that cant dodge fire... so you really have to put an armor upgrade on a cruiser to make it pvp-worthy, but losing what little agility they have would pretty much wreck them.

That's the only ship class I can see having an issue with this though. I think capships are being buffed in 4.85 as well, though i'm not positive yet.



One other suggestion here:

Scanner Shielding

"Scanner shielding is a special armor plating modification added to the cargo bay of a ship to prevent it's cargo from being detected by conventional scanners. This armor upgrade takes 1000 cargo space."

Give this to smugglers, takes up our armor 'hardpoint' and in-rp prevents police/lawfuls from scanning for contraband. To detect the contraband, they'd have to RP actually connecting to the smuggler's ship and doing a manual search, in which case we can just say "We're carrying radioactive waste, I think I can feel my little nomads shrivelling away already, you'd have to be crazy to step aboard this boat!" and fly away =P

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