You are incorrect on that. If armor or shields have built in countering systems, that is merely strengths and weaknesses. Let me give you examples of with and without countering.utilae wrote:Hmmm, this makes me think. IF armor has a built in counter system and shields do not, or vice versa AND you can choose to either have armor and shields or only one of the two, then not having the armor/shield, is not having the counter system, which would be a huge advantage (all damage effectively being normal damage).
With countering
Countering percentage order: Energy/Kinetic/Explosive/Corrosive. All numbers given are percentages of damage. if the number is less than 100, it recieves less damage from the weapon, if greater, it recieves more damage.
A ship with Zortium armor has 1000 armor hp and 500 internal hp. It's resistances are 80/100/120/100. If an energy weapon that does 100 damage is fired at the ship, it takes 80 damage. A kinetic weapon that does 100 damage would still do 100 damage. An explosive weapon that does 100 damage would do 120 damage.
If you remove the armor, the ship has only 500 internal hp and is destroyed in 5 hits from any of those weapons. With the armor, it would take 17.5 (or 18 ) hits from the energy weapon, 15 hits from the kinetic weapon or 13.333 hits from the explosive weapon to destroy it.
Without countering
A ship with Zortium armor has 1000 armor hp and 500 internal hp. If an energy weapon that does 100 damage is fired at the ship, it takes 100 damage. A kinetic weapon that does 100 damage would do 100 damage. An explosive weapon that does 100 damage would do 100 damage.
If you remove the armor, the ship has only 500 internal hp and is destroyed in 5 hits from any of those weapons. With the armor, it would take 15 hits from any of the weapons to destroy it.
A countering system just means that some weapons will do more damage to the ship than other weapons. If you remove the armor and/or shields from the ship, the ship is destroyed faster even though there is no countering system on it since it has no armor/shields.
Integrating the countering with the internals would be really wierd and make no sense IMO.