Physical Defenses

Okay, you don't really want to use shield mods, but your armor is more like a wet paper bag than actual protection. This may be the mod for you ...

Armor, cockpits, doors, hangar doors, blast door blocks, windows, and a few other exterior blocks designed to protect the vulnerable assets on your ships, should actually provide protection when you are attacked. This mod is designed to counter the increases in damage due to new weapons added, and to allow reasonable resilience to ships without having to resort to adding additional defensive systems such as shields that require enormous amounts of energy. This mod adds no new blocks it only redefines existing blocks to make them harder to destroy. So, what is changed? Well, anything that is on the outside of a ship that can be reasonably expected to separate what's outside from what is inside.

How much protection? Well, if you're lucky then a cockpit may be able to take a single assault cannon hit, provided it hasn't been hit by anything else. Light small grid armor can usually take a single Gatling cannon round, and light large grid armor may take a higher number of Gatling gun hits. Artillery rounds still do significant damage, and if your small grid ship gets hit with artillery, well it shouldn't expect to still be there. Rail-guns of course are expected to make swiss-cheese out of your ship.

If you really want to know the specifics of this mod, then feel free to open the files and take a look. if you're really lucky some enterprising person will take it unto themselves to detail things for you. This mod took a lot of trials and testing so I will not be going back to detail all the specifics any time soon. Primarily because my vision isn't that good right now, and I have to get cataract surgery (yes, I'm probably older than most of you).