Armor, Shields and Damage (FAQ)

[The Finn]

First, Zanthis.. wow.. thanks a bunch for this info. Nice to know HOW the bugs affect the game.

I'm new here. This is my first post and I'm still playing the demo - awesome game!! I'm ordering it this month - I figure my bills can wait a little. <grin>

What about this as a stopgap solution until they do a fix?

Divide armor into smaller chunks - say by 5. Tonnage required, tonnage structure and all effects. This would cause more armor destruction and less 'carry-over' damage effects.

I *think* to do this you'd have to do it for ALL armor and modify all the races build designs to put 5 times as much armor on. If you didn't do it for all armor, I think you'd get weirdness where AI ships piled on loads of standard armor until the better types were researched.

The only other possible problem I see with it - How many components can you shove on a ship without causing problems for the program?

[dumbluck]

An excellent thread that definately deserves to be bumped up.

[Aristoi]

I'm curious if anyone heard back from MM about this. Is it on the fix list somewhere?

[Suicide Junkie]

A recent addition to the damage info:

-Small/Weak armor segments will be hit FIRST, 9 times out of 10, with the occasional large segment dying before a small.
-Large/Tough internals will be hit first, most of the time, but most internals tend to be similar size/strength, so its more randomized. Heavy-mount weapons are still the most likely to be hit first.

[mottlee]

WTG Z!

Anyone know if MM has fixed the EM armor yet?

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[DirectorTsaarx]

I haven't seen emissive armor mentioned in the post-1.35 beta patch lists... are we sure MM is working on it for the next patch?

[Lisif Deoral]

BTW, is anyone using emissive armor as it is now? I find it completely useless, even against fighters (since a fighter formation "sums up" all hits instead of shooting one weapon at a time).