Suicide Junkie: pls read, about b5 armor system

[Fyron]

Ragnarok-X said:
Oh well. Actually the point is that im participating in the Last and only babylon 5 pbw game, which is played by 7 players. I have yet to see a ship using the armor system either to effect or in a way described by SJ and Fyron. People simply do not REALIZE how it should work, even if i see your point.
Right now all ships i have seen just use 1kT component to fill the ships space (i.e. you have 8kT space left, so you pack 8x1kT armors), 3kT and 7kT are not used at all.
In addition people pack one "main" armor each of damage-reducing armor, thats about it.

Just because people are horribly misusing it doesn't mean the armor system is flawed. It just needs better explanation...

[Timstone]

Fyron:
No not always are the players the bad side of the equation.
The players have decided (or better yet, found out) that:
- The armor is too big to use in the way it was intended
- The hulls are too small
- The other components are too big
- Or a nice mix between the three foregoing options

Kosh said:
"Truth is a three-edged sword, your side, their side and the truth."

[Fyron]

The basic armors are about the right size...

[Timstone]

Well the game has decided different.
But it never hurts to try and change the description. Maybe that was the faulty thing after all.

[Fyron]

Timstone said:
Well the game has decided different.
But it never hurts to try and change the description. Maybe that was the faulty thing after all.

By basic armors I mean the ones without abilities...

[Timstone]

I'm afreed I haven't played the B5 Mod for a long, long time and I never used more than light armor on my ships because of the huge researchcosts involved. I always used light armor and late game medium. Despite the fact I knew more or less how the armor worked.
I used the bulk heads quite a lot actually. I used then to fill up a hull untill it was just under the maximum resource limit for my constructionyard. This allowed for a maximum used buildingtime and a stronger ship. Although it had a higher maintenance rate.

Well at least we´re getting somewhere with this discussion. I´m sure we´re able to work our something for the armor. Some adjustments to this system.

For this night I say: Good night gentlemen, sleep well! And watch out for the .

[Fyron]

Timstone said:
Well at least we´re getting somewhere with this discussion. I´m sure we´re able to work our something for the armor. Some adjustments to this system.

Adjustments to the basic armor would be bad.

[Suicide Junkie]

Do scale the costs down to be balanced with the other techs.
Just keep it in proportion.

The costs were really only balanced with other armor, since the other techs weren't well defined at the time.