[Pax]

Originally posted by The High Gryphin:
If I understand you,
1 Stealth Armor III + 1 Scattering Armor III + ECM III
Will give you greather ECM than
2 Stealt Armor III+ 1 ECM III
or
2 Scattering Armor III + ECM III

The ECM bonus from each type of source (Stealth armor, Scattering armor, ECM pod) will stack with the ECM bonus gained from other types of sources.

But not with the ECM bonus from other components of the same type.

So Stealth Armor + Stealth Armor gives you nothing extra as far as ECM goes. Ditto for mounting more than one Scattering Armor, or more than one ECM pod.

But yes, mounting all three, you do get the cumulative benefits -- once for each component type/name. Assuming all at level III, that's a {65% (ECM pod) + 15% (Stealth armor) + 15% (scattering armor) =} 95% defensive bonus.

However, 1 Stealth Armor IIIs, 10 Stealth Armor IIIs, or 1,000,000,000 Stealth Armor IIIs ... you still only get +15% ECM from the armor parts.

Which IMO is kinda cheap; the regeneration of Organic armor is fully stackable (the Deathstalker mod makes this even more of a problem IMO; when you can _miniaturise_ armor ... *shudder* Starbases with 60 miniaturised Organic Armor parts ... 1800hp/turn regeneration, eep!!).

The shield-replenishment of Crystalline armor also seems fully stackable.