Player Features and Ideas Discussion

the idea for slopped armour is that attacker and target are on the same level above ground, so it makes no sense in space warfare where you can select your angle of attack. from realistic view not much chance for this idea

but this is a game about spaceships so ...


for protection against every side this would mean a crystal like shape with rays in every direction. using such an armour will bloom up you signature. also there will be much unused space if you ships isnt designed for such an armour in the first place. other way round you could but much more structure in the unused space.

so in conclusion your sloped armour would weight as much as a 800mm one while maybe 40% more hitpoints increase your signature about the same percentage (only the armour sig itselt, not for the unarmourd hull so lets say about 20% )....and increase your structure about .. im unsure here .. also 20%?.

im not sure why armor needs powergrid and cpu, i think its because there is some kind of energy-hardend-system within the armor itself so the fitting requirements would increase too as your armour has a bigger surface.

I See your Point .......Hmmm.... Okay -

How about Stacked Sloped armor ~

http://www.odysseyblinds.co.uk/IMAGES/venetian-blind.jpg

something like ^ still vertical but has the sloped armor so (?) 1/2 the weight (ignor the gaps between the blinds)

~ http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/details/arc/images/arc2008d.jpg (imagine a rectangle in the middle of the stack)


Edit Found it ~ called layered Armor -

like -

http://ars.sciencedirect.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0734743X9900024X-gr2.gif

and here

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7082868-0-large.jpg

Something like that - Need to see if the layered idear works

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7082868-0-large.jpg

I was never fan of "EM shields" as that was always more a thing for Star Trek.

Say, if the game had all this technostuff ala Mechwarrior, you know, with features to specific armor hardener/plating types and names we see in the game, sloped armor or such would make some sense. Would at least give some more flavor to glancing hits etc.

However, sloped armor wouldn't really do much against lasers and missiles. But as other said, the logic and soft/hard physics would counter the idea.

Plus, the game's hitpoints mechanic is centered around "A big HP bar". A sloped armor mechanic and other gimmicks would only work if there was a bit of that oldschool-trek stuff, with suffering internal damages, xyz took a hit -> is offline, etc.

I would welcome the idea, but the game is unfortunately not that welcoming.

I know this is off topic, but did anybody see that Starship Operators anime. I know anime is bad in many eyes, but that specific one did have some stuff that would be interesting for Eve, too.

Energized Regenerative Membrane (contrary to its name, it doesn't "regenerate")

edit: Regenerative Plating (uses one PG to fit, no CPU cost)


Energized Reactive Membrane

edit: Reactive Plating