Ship Design for Dummies, weapons, armor, shields, oh my!

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
But it just doesn't fit with what I see when I test it. I haven't tried shields yet, but at least for armor I see no point in using ANY once you get past LC's. The mounts make the weapons do just too much damage, even for Armor 3. That is unless you have a lot of armor, and then your ship is too weak to really hurt the other guy.

One of the main reasons I use armor is because it is cheap, and a lot of my designs end up with armor III on them just for the sake of keeping cost within the build-time cutoff points.