I get that composite is supposed to fill this niche but I can only imagine how cool it would be to make a composite armor that's different for every player/team. basically when adding armor there could be a box to drag for 'all layers' and a box for 'layer 1", "layer 2" "layer 3" for the armor selection. this would allow a player to have armor that has totally different strengths under the outside plates, this way would allow you to have armor that is effective against more than 1 weapon.
This post makes me want to play MechWarrior again. Firstly I don't need to spend any more time in the Vehicle customisation GUI. If I had dedicated the time I have spent looking at it already I could probably have cured Cancer. Secondly how would you balance it.
It makes balance kind of pointless, given you can use anything. It doesn't really add anything to the game.