Lightweight plating seems to increase deployment cost by a flat 15%, rather than 15% of the base deployment cost. Is this intentional? If so, It seems like it removes a majority of the benefits you might otherwise get from the hullmod.
~Assuming Lightweight plating is infact added by this mod. Might be mistaken.
It's from Scy (as well as Minimal Preparation) And it was intentional. While I see your point, I fear it could become way too powerful at high level when you have a reduced deployment cost, a good ship and can manage to only take hits to your shields. Safeties Override + Lightweight Plating builds would be straight up unfair (they might already be).
Hmm. I suppose I see the point. The armor reduction is only a large penalty if you aren't using shield-focused ships, and the speed boost could get rather silly through stacking *Everything*. I thought that the reduction in armor, and CR duration was enough, especially if you stack it with safety overrides. -60% -20%, or something. I can't remember the exact numbers. That kinda cripples your ability to fight for very long, even if you get a blindingly fast interception frigate. That, and the OP point cost. Safety overrides gives you something like 60 seconds with a frigate, from 3 minutes, and that will probably cut it to 40 seconds at best. I am not certain if the CR decay rate also increases, but if it does, its even more of a penalty, such that stacking, unless you use the speed in that 40 second window to it's maximum potential, will degrade VERY quickly.
I would suggest updating the tooltip to make it a bit more clear however. "Flat 15%" or "Base 15%" or something.