Posted by: Jorgen_CAB
« on: June 09, 2020, 06:08:12 PM »As a major tangent, the removal of armour made large missiles less competitive in my opinion. A sufficiently large missile would justify putting some MSP into armour to increase its chance of penetrating enemy PD layers, whereas smaller missiles would rely on numbers to do the same.
I agree to some degree with this. Although ECM should effectively do the same the problem is that ECM also make the missile allot more expensive and unless you have really high ECM value it is not as effective as armour was and armour also made the missiles cheaper not more expensive so there was even more reason to use it. You could add 0.51 MSP to effectively double the chance of the missile to survive a hit against most effective point defences.
A 10-20% reduction on hit makes little sense in most occasions to use for a reduction on either payload, range and/or speed (if not a bit off everything).