Org & Crystal armor question

[Slick]

I think that you need at least 1 undamaged org armor to be intact after the battle to get them all to heal. Or am I wrong on this?

Slick.

[Captain Kwok]

Slick said:
I think that you need at least 1 undamaged org armor to be intact after the battle to get them all to heal. Or am I wrong on this?

That's right.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Wouldn't a ship with Org and Cryst armor be nearly invulnerable?

[Alneyan]

Alas, the Organic Armour would not regenerate the Crystalline Armour. P&N and its cross-over racial techs do give a regenerating Crystalline Armour, but it takes more space; I have yet to try it though, and couldn't say if the regeneration is much of an improvement.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Thanks.

[Suicide Junkie]

Alneyan said:
Alas, the Organic Armour would not regenerate the Crystalline Armour. P&N and its cross-over racial techs do give a regenerating Crystalline Armour, but it takes more space; I have yet to try it though, and couldn't say if the regeneration is much of an improvement.

The P&N Biocrystal armor takes the same space, and gives you 60% of both of the "purebred" abilities.

The key advantage is that your CA ability dosen't stay broken for long

[Alneyan]

Oops; it looks like I confused your Biocrystal armour with the one from Devnull. (I would gladly pick either for my ships though)

Using a mini OA would be a very good idea, rather than the usual Ablative/Plasma armour. A nasty combination to say the least.

[Suicide Junkie]

Not really; unless the organic armor gets hit before the crystalline, you don't get the organic bonus.
Plus, you're decreasing your crystalline total, which is almost never "enough"

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Now, if you were to mod the organic armor to be 1/6th in every stat (size, regen, hitpoints) then it would be a totally awesome combo.
The mini-OA gets hit first almost always, and regens, while the CA keeps the shields pumped.