Stealth and Scattering Armor bonus

[Gryphin]

So what the others were thinking is basicaly correct.
Since you will be recieving 15 to 30 percent fewer hits you need fewer shield gnerators.

[spoon]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
So what the others were thinking is basicaly correct.
Since you will be recieving 15 to 30 percent fewer hits you need fewer shield gnerators.

Except that the math he uses only applies to situations where the enemy has base 100% to hit (before armor modifications). If the enemy had a base 30% to hit, adding both armors would mean you would only be hit 1% of the time, which is not correctly reflected in his formulae.

Best advice is to put the armor on everything, unless you don't care about being hit, or your enemy is going to hit you 100% of the time anyway.

[Fyron]

Yes it is. You dived the decimal representation of their average chance to hit into the shield points you have. If you have 1000 shields and they have 100% to hit, they have to do an average of 1000 damage worth of shots to breach your shields. If they have a 50% to hit chance, they have to do an average of 2000 damage worh of shots to breach your shields. His formula reflects the base/average chance to hit very well.

[tbontob]

OK Guys

So what is the formula?

[Fyron]

Go read SJ's post again. The values would be how many shield points an equivalent size of shield generators make.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Go read SJ's post again. The values would be how many shield points an equivalent size of shield generators make.

I feel I have read it a hundred times and am still lost.

I am hoping the formuala will help me make sense of all this.

If it is so easy, why cannot someone give it to me?

[spoon]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Go read SJ's post again. The values would be how many shield points an equivalent size of shield generators make.

Oh I see, step 2 includes the defensive value of the armor. I thought he was adding it in step 3. Sorry SJ. Go formula!