[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by spoon:
Is this really true (in Leaky Armor):

Say you had two 200kt ships. One had 100kt of LA, the other had 100kt of HA. Wouldn't the leaky armor on the LA ship be twice as likely to be hit than the armor on the HA ship, since the LA ship has twice the amount of Structure?

The formula that determines which component is hit from a particular shot is biased towards higher hit point components. The more hit points a specific component has compared to other components on the ship, the greater the bias becomes. This is based upon empirical evidence, mostly from testing by Suicide Junkie. Make some sample components and test them out in the simulator. The ship with heavy armor tends to win much more often than the ship with light armor.

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So would i be right in assuming that the ship with Light Armour would although have more hitpoints in general would be more prone to components inside being destroyed while Heavy Armour while not affording as much protection hit point wise would stop internals being destroyed as much...all in theory of course

Just curious as i never understood the leaky armour thing

[ August 04, 2004, 22:18: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]