Armor Upgrades ....

[El Nino]

I just had this idea this morning... and i come here and there's already a post about it.:Dgreat show!

you can add mass to any item. right now armor upgrades have very little mass. It would be great if mass was added to booth basic and capital upgrades. I purpose something like this...

mk1 5
mk2 10
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mk8 40

A typical VHF has 150 mass mk8 armor upgrade would nerf it's strafing and acceleration by 20% that would be only strafing acceleration and such. A small trade off for a VHF but light fighters thou would see a dramatic 40% decrease...

cap8 5000 one third of BS mass thus 25% slower acceleration, strafe and such
put the same armor on a gunboat with it's 500 or something mass and everything becomes very strange indeed. even cruisers only have about 800 (that's battle cruisers) so this part may be very hard to balance. We could make cap8 reserved for battleships. Cap 7 could be something cruisers could use well, and cap 6 suitable for gunboats, and the rest quite friendly to all ships so..
cap7 400
cap6 200
cap5 100
cap4 75
cap3 55
cap2 35
cap1 15

This would provide you with some variation... as you would have a choice, mount cruiser like armor, on your gb, for extra durability, or stay within your gb range, or even opt for cap5 that gives you some good speed.

While this seems great at first glance, right now armor upgrades show that you've invested a great deal of money in to replacing existing ship components with more durable ones for that extra durability.

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