I can see one big problem with OP suggestion.
If you are evolving armor type based on the weapon type biters are killed you need to have athleast some controll to limit how much could their armor against certain weapons evolve othervise you could end up with biters having their armor so powerfull that certain weapons have no efect after some time.
Now you will probably say that this was the OP point so that you are forced to swap weapon types every so often.
But lets say you have reached the point when biters have evolved their armor to be barely afected by gun turrets and you then switch to laser turets. Now biters will be evolving their armor to become more resistant to laser with time.
Will this make them also more resistant to gun turets with time? If not you will quickly end up with biters heavily resistant to both turet types. If yes then you only have to use combination of both turet types at same time and this doesn'e bring much to game. It only becomes nusiance.
So instead I would recomend different solution.
First implement three damage types into game:
- physical damage caused by bulets, and explosive shocks
- heat damage caused by lasers, explosions and flamethrowers
- poison damage caused by poison grenades and poisoned bulets (these cause both physical and poison damage)
Then you make that different biters have different resistance to diferent damage types. For instance:
- some have thick metal armor which gives them high physical resistance but makes them vulnerable to heat damage (you can cook them in their armor
)
- some have heat resistant sking but are quite vurnable to physical damage
- some have high poison resistance so you must cause
. some might be vulnerable to only one damage type so you are forced to use specific weapon to kill them.
Best thing abozut my solution is that it is much easier implementable and as far as I know game already has portion of the code needed for this to work.
