[Fyron]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Considering how cheap armor is for its effectiveness, I'd say its not weak. Aside from the need to repair after battle, of course..

Armor is only a viable alternative to standard shields when PPBs are in use. Otherwise... it is too weak. It can help a little against mines, where shields are useless, but mine sweepers are really cheap anyways, so that is not much of a benefit. Sure, shield depleters can do a lot of damage to shields, but you need a few of them to take out shielding on bigger ships. Use Armor III instead of Phased Shields V to prevent SD damage, and you will find your ships die much more easily. All I am saying is that armor should be a better alternative to shields than it is now. It just dead ends rather early (not counting the ECM armors and such, which are fairly weak in the hit point area).

do you like my small parasite idea? do you think it is balanced?

I like the idea, but the short range makes them useless. They need to be able to chase ships. As they are now, all ships have to do is move back a little and the seekers will hit their max range and die.

[ December 05, 2003, 19:04: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]