How about plating over weapon hardpoints to get only armour and lower debuffs? with things like psyonik shield you often run into energy-problems and just taking the few shield you can afford and filling the rest wilth armour/crystal plating sound like an easy way to turn your fleet basically immobile. It might also be interesting to add some sort "light-weight-strukture" module that counteracts the debuffs and reduces hullpoints. I'm thinking about something along the lines of the T1 component counteracting the health buff and lower debuffs for higher tiers.

Hii ExaBit - I'll take a look this weekend and get your suggested change added.

Originally I had left crystal plating alone in order to provide an armor option which doesn't reduce evasion, but what you have said makes sense.

would it be possible to add a change to how crystal plating works with this too? it just seems like this would make that completely obsolete, and I like using 2-4 on ships that have enough slots to support it.