New Tool: Leaky Shields/Armor simulator.

[Suicide Junkie]

If you hold the mouse over the labels on the right, the tooltips will pop up and explain further.

SGFD stands for the "Shield Generation From Damage" ability, which is seen on crystalline armor and leaky shields.

As the tooltips will also explain, the hitpoints is per component. In the box beside that, you specify how many.

The graph shows the hitpoints remaining on your ship in each category; shield points, leaky armor, shield generators, generic noncriticals, and generic criticals.
The left edge is the state of your ship after the first hit, while the right edge is the state of your ship after the last hit.
Mousing over the chart will display the exact values of what you have left in the colour-coded text boxes at the bottom of the screen.

[Emperor's Child]

Got it, thanks.

[Oversway]

This is cool. The concept of leaky defenses sounds like it would make the game much more interesting. Although, I guess the 'armor skipping' ability of weapons is usless now, if I understand correctly how leaky armor is implemented. Are there any mods that have decent AI support which use leaky defenses? Perhaps the AI isn't good enough at making repair ships to do this.

[Captain Kwok]

Skips armor won't become useless, it will just have a different purpose since it won't trigger the SGFD ability on the leaky shields!

[Fyron]

Skip Armor damage type also does not trigger emissive armor ability. You can bypass non-armor emissive components and leaky shield components (the SGFD part) with such weapons, which brings a whole new sort of usefulness to crystalline shard cannons.

[Oversway]

Ah, I see Cool, thanks!

[Atrocities]

Very cool SJ.