Improved armor model thoughts

[Nodachi]

Emperor's Child said:
AI wouldn't use anything but the big guns, yeah, thought of that once I posted. Sigh, would need an AI re-design to work correctly. Too bad, I rather liked where this was going as far as weapon mix and encouragement to use a mix of ship sizes. The AI design drags you back to the big ships = big guns routine and a focus on building large ships.

There is a way around this but it requires some serious work from the modder, a well-done AI_DesignCreation.txt and AI_Construction_Vehicles.txt. With these two files you can really fine tune an AI to only build what you want it to build. It will still use the last mount listed but you'd be able to force it to use a better mix of ships.

[NullAshton]

You could use diffrent sized armor. Bigger armor would have less hit points, but a larger emissive ability. Smaller armor has more hitpoints, but less of an emissive ability.