Balance Mod's Emissive Armor

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings!

As you know with v1.25, the Emissive Armor ability now stacks. This has necessitated the need for change in the mod. There are two main options I can see for Emissive Armor.

The first option is have Emissive Armor function as it does now, that is with a specific damage amount reduction. The likely change required would be to decrease the current damage amount and structure in an effort to balance it against low damage weapons. A good benefit is that the emissive ability can be influenced by tech level. A drawback includes potentially forcing players to add X number of armors to make large ships invulnerable to non-mounted weapons and most fighter designs.

The second option is to change the design types so that Emissive Armor reduces each damage amount by a fixed %. So essentially the more Emissive Armors you add, the greater overall % reduction you get. The main benefit here is that it doesn't entirely discriminate against low damage weapons. The downside is the fixed % won't change, so only the Armor's structure can be improved.