Hull Upgrades

[FooFighter]

[color=red]READ BEFORE YOU VOTE.

This is NOT about just removing hull upgrades. This is about removing hull upgrades AND boosting ALL ship's armors by multiplying it with 2.5 - essentially integrating the hull upgrade into all ships with no price attached.

Should fighter/bomber/GB hull upgrades be removed?
Every Fighter, Bomber or GB on this server that isn't currently being set up, subject to trial/recruit rules or belongs to a completely new player has a Mk8 hull upgrade mounted. It's expensive, especially for new players, and it's only purpose seems to be to raise the price of a combat-proof ship. Wouldn't it be a good idea to remove the upgrades and to just multiply all ship's armor upgrades with 2.5?

Should capship hull upgrades be removed?
It's quite similar with caps, with the only difference being some cruisers who prefer to mount Mk7 or Mk6 hull upgrades because the Mk8 upgrade is quite expensive. Should capship hull upgrades be removed as well?

Should hull upgrades stay but instead carry a significant disadvantage for the people mounting them?
Currently, players do not have much of a choice regarding hull upgrades. They just buy the one that reinforces their armor the most. Maybe we could keep hull upgrades, but attach a significant disadvantage to them? I don't know what can be done and what not (my knowledge of FL modding is pretty much restricted to system making), but I'm sure you can think of something that could be done.

Vote and discuss. As it was with the trading poll, this poll isn't endorsed by the dev team either and regardless of the outcome, no change is guaranteed to happen.

Here's the code for the <strike>lazy</strike> more convenient people among us:

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[b]Should fighter/bomber/GB hull upgrades be removed?[/b]


[b]Should capship hull upgrades be removed?[/b]

[b]Should hull upgrades stay but carry a significant disadvantage for the people mounting them?[/b]