To hell with Armor Upgrades!

[Grumblesaur]

What's the point of removing armor upgrades from the game and then doubling the hull strenght? We would end up exactly where we started.

Let me put it this way.

In vFreelancer, the Sabre, one of the toughest targets you can encounter, looks like this:

Shield capacity - about 11,000
Batteries - 63 (200) = 12,600
Hull strength - 10,800
NanoBots - 63 (300) = 18,900

Which is 53,300 hitpoints altogether.
In Disco, the Sabre's stats look like this:

Shield capacity - about 11,000
Batteries - 66 (300) = 19,800

Now, here's where the 2.5 becomes involved. It affects both.
Hull strength - 11,200 *2.5 = 28,000
NanoBots - 66 (600) = 39,600 *2.5 = 99,000

And that is 157,800 hipoints. That's 3 times more!!!
To make the matter even worse, we've got nearly industructible bombers in Disco. For instance:

Praetorian, not the toughest one but still:

Shield capacity - about 11,000
Batteries - 100 (300) = 30,000

Hull strength - 21,000 * 2.5 = 52,500
NanoBots - 100 (600) = 60,000 *2.5 = 150,000

= 243,500 hitpoints. Plus I should probably mention that because the battles last so long, the shield will automatically fix itself at least 500 times bringing another 1000 hitpoints with it.

Can't think of anything more frustrating than using a light figher against agile targets with 157,800 or 243,500 hp.

In the olden days, 53,300 was just enough. And that's the value I'd like this mod to approach.
That actually gave me another idea. I suggest all fighter weapons from lvl 1 right up to the lvl 10, except shield busters, get damage boost.

But 20% is nowhere near enough. 100% sounds better.

Or why not counter armor upgrades with "damage upgrades" of some sort with the same 2.5x modifier?

2.5 damage upgrade on BS with solaris turrets vs. Bomber = PWN.
Maybe not a good idea.

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