Ablative Armor

Dalas120

Health: 750 (formerly 500)
Penetration Resistance: 5
Density: 0.333
Cost: $75 (formerly $50)

Basically an extremely cheap, lightweight, disposable type of armor designed to block high-damage single projectiles (l. cannons and missiles) by forcing overkill.

Pros:
Cheaper and lighter than regular armor vs large cannons and missiles
High penetration resistance

Cons:
More expensive and heavier than regular armor vs EB, ions, and lasers.
Extremely bulky

The numbers probably need some tweaking, but what do you guys think about the overall idea?

ImTired

Dalas120 Maybe a little less health, you don't want it to be too stronk.

jbox1

Dalas120 Cost: $50

Erherm. This could use some balancing.

Dalas120

jbox1 Dalas120 Cost: $50

Erherm. This could use some balancing.

Do you mean it's too cheap or too expensive? Normal armor gives you 13.33 hp per $1, so this armor is strictly worse at 10 hp per $1. It's only cheaper vs large cannons and missiles when it can block significantly more than 500 damage.

jbox1

Dalas120 I wrekon you should give it a little more health and cost, because 50€ is the same cost as structure, and comsidering all parts already have structure in them, how could you have an armor which costs the same as what it is built onto?

Dalas120

jbox1 Maybe something like 1000 health $100? Or 750 health $75? The higher the health gets the less efficient it gets vs large cannons.

500 health $50 = 3x efficiency against large cannons
750 health $75 = 2x efficiency against large cannons
1000 health $100 = 1.5x efficiency against large cannons

Missiles are hard to calculate because of splash

And you have to remember that small trianglar armor pieces have 1000 hp for $75, and 3 penetration resistance. So there needs to be some sort of significant difference between this armor and just a triangular piece

jbox1

Dalas120 75 makes sense?

Dalas120

jbox1 Edited the original post then. I guess it's still different than tiny triangular armor because 1: it's square, 2: full penetration resistance, 3: it's a tiny bit more lightweight, and 4: less HP