Why weapons cost much more than armor?

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Why weapons cost much more than armor?

#1 Post by Oberlus »

Take for example MD and standard plate: 6 damage (18 if it lasts to the third bout), 20 PPs, or 6 structure, 4 PPs (or 12 PPs to get 18 structure). So the relation is between 1:5 and 3:5 depending on survivality of the ships.

I suspect these numbers have some very deep thinking behind, but I can't see the reason.
I once tried checking the effect on combat if costs were more "balanced" (doubled armor cost) and I didn't get any insight (neither way seemed better or broken).

Does anyone know about this?

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Re: Why weapons cost much more than armor?

#2 Post by Vezzra »

Yeah, me, as I was the one who did the big weapon/armor/shield revision 7 years ago, and came up with all the numbers (RP and PP costs, and stats). Those numbers have been adjusted/tweaked in the meantime, but are still based on that big revision in 2013.

I did a quick search and found these two threads where you might find useful explanations for why these numbers had been chosen:

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7640&hilit=weapon+ ... 4918c0303a
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7441&hilit=weapon+armor+cost

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Re: Why weapons cost much more than armor?

#3 Post by Oberlus »

Thank you very much. I never found those threads. Very useful.

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