but you forget, modern airplanes go down from a single air-to-air missile, in Elite it takes at least 5 paper mache missiles to down anything. Elite's health pools increase all the time, damage to a lesser extent. But what that does is turn every battle into a grind feast to gather enough ammo just to see a combat zone mission to the end.
Yes, that is a real problem. But much like the (quickly reverted) boost-cancelling drag change that rightly caused an outcry, this is an incomplete solution with troublesome unintentional consequences, to a problem that really calls out for a systemic solution. This proposal wreaks weapon balancing through different-sized ammo pools, and in return only addresses part of the problem. It does nothing for excessive TTK, for instance.
What we need is a offense/defense rebalance that deals with the extreme hitpoint inflation at the high end, while still keeping it easy for low-end builds to boost their defenses out of paper-plane territory. Diminishing returns for stacked HRPs and shield boosters, for a start.
