Shiels or Armor: Which is best against mines?

[DirectorTsaarx]

I don't think Emissive Armor stacked in SEIII either. But it was more useful, mainly because fighters fired individual shots instead of in one volley. And also because, as you mentioned, it absorbed however many points BEFORE getting destroyed (I think).

As for increasing emissive armor's absorption power: look through the list - IIRC, there aren't many weapons that do less than 30 points of damage (except at long range). The "Small" weapons do less than that, but they rarely (if ever) fire alone; they're usually lumped together in a volley of however many exist in a fighter group.

So my point is, we can't change how emissive armor absorbs damage or how fighters fire weapons, but we can adjust how much damage emissive armor absorbs. Maybe 40 or 50 should be the max instead of 30? (I looked at my Last post again, and I agree that 80 might be too high; a lot of weapons do 60 or so points damage, at least on normal mounts... although once you get heavier mounts, 80 damage is easy to do...)

[This message has been edited by DirectorTsaarx (edited 28 February 2001).]