I did some testing tonight with cheap mods, the Civilian Pilot Suit (Social Light Armor) and Deadeye's Prototype Jacket (Orange Medium Armor) Here are my results, using Skill Mod (X), and the mods I had materials onhand to make. Mod/Light Armor Value/Medium Armor Value 2 58 91 3 70 109 4 83 127 5 97 146 6 111 166 7 125 186 8 140 206 9 154 226 12 201 290 Putting that into a spreadsheet and averaging, Light armor has 66.58% the armor that Medium does. I don't have access to Orange Heavy that I can mod at this point, but I don't think it's unreasonable to speculate that the Medium to Heavy is around the same. If that speculation is true (and the 'numerical gap' between Light to Medium is constant between Medium and Heavy), that means that Light armor is worth roughly HALF (49.93% is what the spreadsheet spit out) the armor that Heavy is, for a given mod. Are we moving in the right direction to answer the question definitively?