A new look at sheild mitigation and ship dmg - player input/ideas appreciated!

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After reading through the posts on shield dmg mitigation and looking through the files on how it’s increased/decreased. It seems to me that the system is slightly flawed (for the purpose of reducing focus fire). As a recap, the shield mitigation goes up as your ships takes more DPS(number of ships shooting is irrelevant other then more ships mean more dps). IE more dps = more wasted dmg to mitigation but the ship dies faster reducing your Opponent's DPS (there is some min/max math you could do here to determine the highest DPS vs. Opponent's DPS lost and optimize this). I wonder how hard it would be to have ships that are taking dmg(hull) lose effectiveness at a rate that would increase the usefulness of spreading fire.. I suppose an issue with this would be to focus fire but change the target every time the ships dmg /effectiveness lost reached the optimum point which might in all honesty make the problem worse. Does anyone else out there have any other ideas? I personally want something more from the combat system. I feel all the necessary mechanics are in place but even one or two more levels of complexity would be great! Please do not get me wrong, I love this game, I just think it could be so much more without adding too much to the micro of battles (perhaps something as simple as the direction from which a ship is getting hit , or the chance of critical hits knocking out wep systems). I just wanted to start a post that will pool ideas sround this subjet in hopes that Ironclad might notice.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
If your empire was in a good enough state so that you could micromanage battles to that incredibly small degree, you wouldn't need to micromanage, just throw a couple dozen extra ships at them.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
The simple solution to the mitigation system without overly increasing game complexity (like critical hits disabling systems) is to make mitigation decay exponentially. This way one high-DPS ship is not able to max out the mitigation of a ship. Likewise, the mitigation cap could be increased, further decreasing the effectiveness of focus fire.

Mitigation would have a half-life, so 30 DPS would result in a fairly low amount of mitigation, 300 DPS would result in a mid-to-high mitigation and 3000 DPS would cap it out.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
That is a really good idea. I think it would acomplish the very goal Stardock was trying to reach. It would be simple to implement in a patch as well.