Armour and Shields

Armour

Armor does not get more expensive the more you add, all thats occurring is that you are having more spread of armor as you add more armor, the actual cost per strength of armor = the same as at armor rating 1 as it is at armor rating 20.

Now armour cost in speed I can understand, as you add more. and you get less layers per hullsize as you get thicker and thereby a larger ship but thats different from actual cost per armour strength added which stays the exact same.

However, after doing some math on this, i think im gonna double the amount of shields I have on my star knight.

Ok so here we are.

I have Armour rating 13 on my star knight now, that is a total weight of 4585 tons. providing a total of 1100.4 armour strength

If i did that amount in shields, Epsilon r15 shields i would have. only 276 shield strength 92 shields x 50 weight each = 4600 tons, and the cost is actually just slightly cheaper than armor at that weight amount, 100 less cost.

but those 92 shields will regenerate 1 shield strength each every 100 seconds.

so that is 92 damage you wont be taking against normal weapons every 100 seconds.

BUT 276 total damage stoppage by shields is... very anemic. that is only 50x6 strength missiles to blast right through!

So in brief.....

Shields

Shields are worthless compared to armor. For weight they arent worth it at all, and other than for ships with a long time to be in space, you probably should only throw a maximum of 20 on them until you have much higher shield strength tech.

Now at lvl 10 strength shield tech, you are now going to have something.

10x94 = 940 shield strength at 4600 tons. That is the point where you can start exchanging shields for armor and easily shields would do better than armor due to regeneration technology! That is... if you dont take into account Armour advancing at the same pace.