You guys are throwing on way too much armor, and you will suffer for it, I just tested out in Exioce with lucy and just changing from 5d's for 3d's improves agility noticeably, due too the reduced mass.
And for not needing an a8 plant ? serioulsy mine is at 139% power draw if I don't offline a bunch of mods
Gentlemen I give you
LucyYeah, those beams do keep me toasty, if I accidentally hit boost and fires at the same time I can easily hit 120% heat
I now have them split into first and secondary fire and that keeps me from overheating and is generally plenty, thinking of putting the huge hardpoints to use and run beams and two huge cannons.
Another layout I can recommend is three large burst's and cannons the medium and smalls.
And again about mass, Roger Wilco JR really nailed something the other day with his Seagals (hullpoints to mass ratio)
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4163You can make a 3k armour behemoth, yes, but I don't really think you are going to want to.
Update:
Of course, my bad, gave the wrong credit for the HP\mass bit, it's of course Lion of Narnia's epiphany and not Rogers.
My apologies to the Lion.