Agreed Oleg, and some may say that
exterior HULL Armor requiring such a great portion of interior space may seem odd as well.
In regards to the Plate Armors;
it is and always will be scaled to the ships displacement. An AIC Dreadnoughts Armor Plate, is and always will be considerably stronger then a Battleship and more to that of a Cruiser, etc. The only test changes to AIC Hull Plating; will be for it to require much less interior Ships/Base Space occupied by its Armor
With this change, many more interior Ship/Base options will be now to our avail with the freed interior Space this change will yeild
As for Structural Armor (as per Fyron definition of "SJ Leaky Armor") Many Players and I believe is more of a true interior structural support then the AIC Structure Armor used today and when revised; this Armor will not have or need for any load limits
Organic and Crystalline Armors. Agreed, it will take many more
Emails and Posts to convince us of the desire for load Limits.
Ablative Armor (externals absorbent material) may be a limited to one, this will not occupy any interior Ship/Base Space.
Advanced Composite armor has not been determined at this time for all its Abilities, Values or Limit. However, (after a sufficient Tech investment) its intent will be towards the mid to late game and to offset other Racial Armors for the non-Racial Players.
As it is now, a new/revised AIC Armor Inventory is a theory that will be tested.
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I will send you guys the Beta after it is all put together. Along with the changes discussed and others not yet fully discussed. Plus an AI that will be turned up a few more notches in the Total Mid and Late game:
Ship, CV, Unit, BaseShip, Intel and Research Productions.
[ February 01, 2004, 16:00: Message edited by: JLS ]