I see it this way: It punishes someone for barely surviving an encounter.

I do not support such a mechanic.

If they refuse to take it out, it needs to be present on installations, the MCC and infantry as well so everyone is equally punished.

there is an easy fix. fit an armor rep module.

Shield>armor
but if you don't carry something that can rep armor you will burn if you let your shield drop.

When there are two options for defense Armor or Shield. Having one regenerate naturally on it's own and the other burn down on its own unless you add an extra module to counter the burn effect then functionally there's only one effective option. And pity the poor new player who doesn't know any better an invests his limited skill points and ISK in the wrong one.

The two types of tanking should provide equal levels of protective value (albeit in differing specialized situations).

I agree with the OP, something needs to be changed.

Agreed, stupid mechanic, and punishes unevenly.

you don't have to be inside when it burns.

the only thing it punishes is ignorance. vehicles are death machines and after they been hit hundreds of times by rockets and other things it heats up and starts burning. of course this is after it loses a huge chunk of the armor and by that point it might as well be dead.

or you could run away like all the other pilots and rep before that time comes

The problem is that you aren't punished at all for letting you shields dip below fifty percent, while you are put into fight-or-flight when your armor still has a good amount left to it.

Also, 'you don't have to be inside it when it burns'?

Put your money where your mouth is, literally. Let me see you ditch that 2mil Mudrugar or Surya because it started to burn.

I'm no HAV expert but it just confirms that overall, Shield is way superior to Armor in Dust 514 no matter if you're infantry or vehicle. The idioticly high shield regen compared to the armor one is enough in comparing both.

Also, skill speaking, you find the same skill for both types that allows you to get +25% from base shield\armor HP. But, shield has a +25% skill for natural regen ! When armor has a +5% skill for armor reps only this skill is barely usefull on 2,3 and 5HP regen per second.

Some will argue there's an armor rep gun for logistics. But who will choose a dependant defense against an independant one ?

[FEEDBACK] Burning armor and damage
Update: The threshold when armor begins to burn and take damage has been lowered. Expect future updates of this mechanic to include the use of damage control module to reduce the burn damage.

Are you freaking kidding me? This mechanic just needs to go, not be lessened and require sacrificing a module slot to combat (and not even prevent, it's still apparently going to happen even with the module since it's just reducing the effect?). It doesn't matter how much damage the fire does, the fact that the fire damage is there is what creates problems.

There is no reason for the armor to be burning like that. Why is my armor flammable? Why isn't infantry armor flammable as well? Why should I be punished for barely surviving? Why don't you just give me less base HP if you think my effective HP should be lower?

Seriously, just remove it. Just because other games have that mechanic doesn't mean we need to as well. Don't copy bad ideas for the sake of being like other games, especially when we have actual costs to our vehicles and those other games don't.

you sound like a child.

you are being punished because you don't take the module to repair your armor. you are also being punished because you allowed yourself to drop below the threshold. run away like the coward you are sooner instead of the last second.

Why does every vehicle need to fit an armor repair to survive? You've just weakened all but active armor fits by eating up that module slot and fitting space.

Why do people need to be punished for dropping below an arbitrary threshold? Why can't people be punished for not dealing enough damage to finish off the vehicle? It works that way with infantry. If 2 tanks go at it, and one kills the other and barely survives, it should also die? It makes no sense.

Not sure what's sounding like a child to you, but feel free to keep insulting people for no reason. It doesn't make your position any stronger.

I agree with Noc. It's one of the many stupid advantages shields have over armor with no real equivalent drawback.

Shield has boosters, Armor has reppers
Shield has resist modules, Armor has active plates
Shield has extenders(no weaknesses), Armor has plating(which slows you)...

but...

Shield has active resistance modules, armor has nothing.
Shield doesn't have any weaknesses when it begins to fail(like the leak-through damage in EVE), Armor begins to burn and take damage.
Shield resists all current forms of AV weaponry naturally, Armor doesn't.
Running out of shield is no big, hide behind a mountain for a few moments, maybe wait for the boosters to cool down. Run low on armor? BAIL!

We need a damn structure level for vehicles, at the very least... and more armor mods and shield weaknesses, at the very most.