I use layered armor, because you encounter plenty of bomb related elements, I also don't think it is unfair, think of it as an alloy.
I originally created it to improve on the armour that other ships and walls used, and then realised that you can make 5 layers of armour, and used it as a BOMB resistant layer and then I stopped using cheaty weapons, but kept using the armour, not realising that it was so powerful, now, it is probably still unfair, but some of the (non-cheaty) weapons that are scattered around tpt could make layered armour required to stand a chance against them.
I don't use it either, in my mind, being physically impossible in the real world makes it cheating. If you have to use it to make something awesome work (like a reactor or a weapon or a fuel source or an engine) that could get a pass, but I don't use it to entirely armour my ships.
me thinks same thats why i don't use it
Is layered armour better than normal? Because I kind of think its cheating.
I know ISOZ creates negative pressure when it decays.
That probably wouldn't be a suitable armour component though, being able to go through anything and heating it up a lot, and getting destroyed by gravity shields.
@the_new_powder, layered prots do..
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