The point is, that there is a certain breakpoint at about 50-60 tons, where we do not have the Crits anymore to fill in Ferro in any useful manner. This means, that mechs with a slight higher weight-class (lets say 70 tons) immediately see a sharp drop in their armor protection compared to one weight-class below (lets say 60 tons), meaning they are bigger, slower and have the same armor protection.
This is not good. Increasing the max. amount of armor points this way will cripple all assaults, as they are much slower, but do not show the armor values they should have. And they need that protection, because they are BIG and SLOW. So, from my point of view, this is a "No". What I could think about is to reduce either the amounts of crits (14 crits are pretty hefty) or to slighty increase the weight-saving ratio upwards.
In general, a relative armor increase benefits Lights the most and Assaults the least. In my honest opinion, I even think we should introduce a non-linear armor-rating, so that Lights have 2x the armor protection of the BT-rules (like we have now) and Assaults up to 2.5x of that value. I see assaults dropping like flies, where lights take the same damage (Spider...) and still stand. This has two reasons:
1) The Hitboxes are so small, that a lot of damage goes into oblivion (Laser and SRM)
2) Lights are in general too small for their tonnage (A spider would need to have about 1/3 of the volume of an Atlas, but we see something like 1/20)
If we outbalance the size of Lights relative to assaults with their tonnage, then we can go on in terms of giving a general boost to armor. Right now, Lights soak up far too much damage aside from pinpoint-weapons - which is also a reason why they are overused.
Fixing Lasers and SRM, Light-Hitboxes and their size and then we are good to go. I think that the size and hit-registration of for example a Raven is very good - beside its legs. Which may be the reason why you see it so rarely, because you cannot abuse it like you can for the Spider.
Edited by Shevchen, 14 July 2014 - 01:41 PM.