So, I've been thinking lately about layered armor. Specifically, wondering which would be more effective: 4 plates of armor that go one at a time, or the standard Fore-Starboard-Port-Aft configuration, or something in between.
Now, I know that you can do at least a two layer setup using the current code, via the 'noncritical="true"' thingy...but is it possible to do it with more layers? If it's not, it should be.
This would allow some fun diversity for enemy ships: Laser resistant armor on top, kinetic resistant on the bottom, that sort of thing. The player ship could also benefit from this. I don't think that the layer system should totally replace the four-segment setup that we currently have, but being able to choose your armor configuration would be lots of fun.
Just a random thought for the day.
