Right now, Meta Alloy Hull Reinforcements are useless in all cases. Against caustic damage, both human engineered hull reinforcements and guardian hull reinforcements dramatically outcompete them in every way.
To make them useful, how about this?
Meta Alloy Hull Reinforcements are placed on the outside of the ship. As long as they have not been destroyed(IE, as long as the ship hasn't taken damage equal to their bonus hull value), the ship is immune to caustic damage over time.
Example: A ship with 3000 hull, 300 of which is meta alloys. A thargoid caustic missile hits them while they have 3000 hull; all caustic damage is prevented.
Example 2: The same ship, having taken 250 damage, flies through a caustic cloud. All caustic damage is prevented.
Example 3: The same ship, having taken 500 damage, is hit by a caustic missile. Since the meta alloys have been depleted, the ship now takes caustic damage like normal.
Notably, the ship in question would have sacrificed 327 hull to achieve this, by using meta alloys rather than engineered human hull reinforcements.
Tertiary to this, all AX fighters should be enhanced with full meta-alloy construction, making them completely invulnerable to caustic damage over time effects.
Thoughts?
To make them useful, how about this?
Meta Alloy Hull Reinforcements are placed on the outside of the ship. As long as they have not been destroyed(IE, as long as the ship hasn't taken damage equal to their bonus hull value), the ship is immune to caustic damage over time.
Example: A ship with 3000 hull, 300 of which is meta alloys. A thargoid caustic missile hits them while they have 3000 hull; all caustic damage is prevented.
Example 2: The same ship, having taken 250 damage, flies through a caustic cloud. All caustic damage is prevented.
Example 3: The same ship, having taken 500 damage, is hit by a caustic missile. Since the meta alloys have been depleted, the ship now takes caustic damage like normal.
Notably, the ship in question would have sacrificed 327 hull to achieve this, by using meta alloys rather than engineered human hull reinforcements.
Tertiary to this, all AX fighters should be enhanced with full meta-alloy construction, making them completely invulnerable to caustic damage over time effects.
Thoughts?
