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.