Armor, Shields and Damage (FAQ)

[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).

[Mad_Lear]

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Originally posted by Lisif:
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).

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I sometimes use em armor on troops. I don't know exactly how the computer calculates ground combat results (would be interesting to find out though) but in theory ground combat should involve a barrage of seperate, low damage attacks (instead of one big bLast), so em armor should help out. On the other hand, if the millions of defenders on the ground get their attacks grouped together into a single shot like stacked fighters do, the em armor ain't worth much. Any of you elite SEIV players out there know how the ground combat really is calculated?

Bump. An extremely informative thread about to slip off the bottom....

[dumbluck]

This sure is a bumpy topic...

[dumbluck]

This seems like an excellent thread in which to ask this question: How does Emissive Armor work in v1.49? They say that they "fixed" it. So how does it work now?

[Spoo]

I'm not sure what they mean by "fixed". I did a test right after the patch came out, and nothing seemed to have changed; the armor still only works if the damage is less than 30 (for EA III) -since very few weapons do less than 30 damage, and fighters fire in Groups, EA is still useless.

[ZeroAdunn]

I think Emissive armor works. When I did a couple of tests my ships took damage and negate the first amount of damage (think it was like 20) and then what was left over went to component damage. Unfortunately the emissive armor didn't break untill after combat.