basic questions on armors

[Pocus]

is the bonus of squattering and stealth cumulative? Is it prudent to put more than one on a ship?

How exactly works emissive armor? Do they cumulate?

Shields : do all the shields of a fighter group cumulate?

TIA.

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Pocus:
is the bonus of squattering and stealth cumulative? Is it prudent to put more than one on a ship?

I do not believe the defense/sensor bonus is cumulative, say, if you put three scattering armor units on. However, the damage points are. Stealth and scattering armor are cumulative.

How exactly works emissive armor? Do they cumulate?

Same deal as scattering armor.

Shields : do all the shields of a fighter group cumulate?

No, Fighter Groups are counted as one target - the shields just reduce how many get killed in one shot.

[Edit: spelling errors and clarified point 1]

[ April 26, 2003, 23:53: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Slick]

Originally posted by Pocus:
is the bonus of squattering and stealth cumulative? Is it prudent to put more than one on a ship?

How exactly works emissive armor? Do they cumulate?

Shields : do all the shields of a fighter group cumulate?

TIA.

1) yes, only one of each. (scattering, not squattering)

2) it's somewhat broken and they don't stack. the first X amount of damage is negated from the first emissive armor and any other emissive armors don't emiss.

3) edit: oops. no. all components in a fighter act as structure. the fighter is fully functional until its stack receives enough damage to kill off a fighter and then it dies.

Once again, these are all answered in the Newbie FAQ. See the topmost sticky thread.

Slick.

[ April 26, 2003, 23:50: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Gryphin]

There is one cumulative aspect to scattering and stealth armor.
That is the 15pts of ECM. If you have 1 of each you recive 30 pts of ECM.

[Fyron]

Some of these responses are a little confusing, so...

Your ship can recieve the defense bonus from 1 ECM component, 1 Stealth Armor component, and 1 Scattering Armor component. These all stack. So at best, you get +60 +15 +15 = +90 defense bonus from them. 2 ECMs do not stack. 2 Stealth Armors do not stack their ECM defense bonus. 2 Scattering Armors do not stack their ECM defense bonus. Placing more than 1 of any of these components on a ship is generally not good to do because ships tend to be destroyed in a single salvo anyways. They rarely Last long after the shields are down. The Armors are expensive and relatively large, so using extras takes away a lot of space from weaponry.

[Pocus]

Ok I have read the faq (at least the armor part). What I would like explained is the damage absorption effect of scattering armor. Do they add for each component? What is the real effect?

If the damage is above the absorption rating, what happens? nothing, or a reduction in dmg?

Every weapon hitting the vessel has his damage rating reduced, or the first one in the round? I stand confused.