Player Features and Ideas Discussion

In the resistance-adjustment thread (and various battleship rebalance threads), I read suggestions about creating bonuses to remote reps applied to active-rep-bonused ships, and discussions about how resist bonuses heavily buffed the power of remote shield/armor reps from logi boats due to the lack of balance between the attenuation of damage by resists and the raw repairs delivered by the logis.

So, dumb idea time: what if incoming shield/armor repair is attenuated by your lowest resist? Perhaps offset (partially or completely) by a general buff to shield and armor repair units' repair amount to compensate, but leading to the following tactical decision:

If you're under fire and your buffer is starting to fail, is it worth the risk to disengage a hardener, to open up a resistance hole and improve the rate at which you receive your reps? For instance, if you're in an Armageddon, facing a Rokh fleet, you might think it's safe to shut down an explosive armor hardener, but perhaps there's also a bunch of Tempests off to the side that would fillet you if you opened up your explosive hole...

There are probably a lot of reasons this is a dumb idea, I imagine starting with coding difficulties. I'd be interested in hearing why it wouldn't work - that's a major part of how we learn, isn't it?