Emissive Armor

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Quote: I've also seen it stated that if a single shot destroys an armour component and has some damage left to do, that damage is applied to the non-armour components. Subsequent shots would be taken by the remaining armour, unless those rounds too are strong enough to destroy an armour component with a single bLast.

Reply: I've never noticed that happen. I have the .56 demo. As far as I can tell, my heavily armored ships never take non-armor damage until all the armor is gone. (That's a bit unrealistic, but to make things realistic you'd have to model the ships in 2D, place the armor around the ship, keep track of orientations, allow for aiming at soft points, etc. Even purely tactical games are rarely that realistic.) Maybe some of the wierd armors (crystal, organic) work as you describe??