Suggestion regarding bonuses and penalties associated with modules

[Excelsior718]

I've been examining the module stats.

 

Some of the modules are a trade off between the module's benefits and disadvantages.   For example, a module that increases armor might decrease overall speed.

That makes sense, as design elements of a ship will affect one another.

 

What does not make sense to me is that as the quality of the module increases, the ratio of advantage to disadvantage remains the same.   A common module has the same ratio of advantage/disadvantage as an exceptional module.  

 

It seems to me that an exceptional module should have a higher advantage in proportion to the disadvantage.  

 

So, if a common module grants a +5% armor bonus and imposes a -5% overall speed penalty, an exceptional module of the same type should grant a +10% armor bonus and have a -7.5% speed penalty.  

 

Currently the quality of a module just increases the bonus and the penalty, rendering some of the high quality bonuses a bit too extreme in their negative effects to be useful.  

[Francech]

depends, if you take the armor, it's basically putting more weight to the ship. But i think it should be balanced out by copper plating that gives 1% speed bonus. But the problem is that copper plating goes up to 2.5% while armor goes up to 5%. So maybe to offsett a upgrade you should pay with a other upgrade slot.

[Excelsior718]

I have collected a number of exceptional modules now.   

 

The only ones that have any practical value are the ones without penalties.  

 

This really makes no sense.  Exceptional modules should not have such high penalties as to render them useless.