I'm gonna bump this rather then make a new thread for it.
Armor upgrades are still too bloody expensive, four million credits for the 'best value' armor is bollocks considering I bought a 17.5k armor Werewolf with a big gen and cargo hold for 2.2mil.
God knows who it is, but if some people are adamant about armor upgrades staying stupidly expensive, then use the same idea as the thrusters. Cheap and cheerful versions for the masses up to the top-tier, which are REALLY expensive (equivalent of the Cheetah thruster). Then people might actually use the other armors. Here are some example values.
Mark I - 170000
Mark II - 290000
Mark III - 360000
Mark IV - 480000
Mark V - 755000
Mark VI - 958000 - Roughly the cost of a good HF
Mark VII - 1720000 - Roughly the cost of a cheap VHF
Mark VIII - 15200000
If anyone bothers to read this - have a look at the amount of community members in this thread that have supported the idea of reducing the cost of armor upgrades. Instead of just ignoring the time spent discussing the idea in this thread, I'd at least like a reason for why I seem to be wasting my time.