[couslee]

Not to mention the other benefit of the armor. it gets hit first (unless they armor skipping weapons). I would rather have to repair 200kt worth of armor, than not be able to get out of their weapon range and have to build a new ship. And maybe it's just me, but it certainly seems like the shield depleters are a lot more accurate than the weapons that damage armor. Personally, I think it's the shields that are over powered and not the armor being under powered.

It's just my opinion so far. being my first game, I have not seen all the components in action yet. The funniest one, was after a battle with the Phong, and that &%$@# weapon they have, had a ship that the ONLY component to survive the battle was my stealth armor. Had that been a shield component, it probably would have been destroyed. The great one HP escape.