Every ship has a shield multiplier.... I suggest that you give that consideration. Or are you believing that you should run stock....Every shield on every ship comes stock with 50% explosion resistance. Lowering that drastically isn’t even typical, so needing to counter a decrease via a boost should never be necessary.
Shield Generator
Forms a continually regenerating protective energy shield around the vessel. — In-Game Description A shield generator comes with each ship by default, and upgrades can be found throughout the galaxy. It occupies an Internal Compartment slot. Note that not all ships will keep this shield...elite-dangerous.fandom.com
I was talking Hull Tank, thats where you are concentrating on Hull, but you need a fast cycling shield.
as Heavy duty Super Capacitor, the time for recharge is 12 minutes. . You could indeed drop the BR/TB for an extra few seconds, however I prefer a balanced resistance, and you did ask for a build. Please don't argue about need. The usage I put it to needed it in the context of the ship/scenario - the above is an example and not my actual ship. Most people put on reinforced Hi Cap as its recommended lol, with no understanding on how that affects recharge/recovery.
I agree, but also putting lightweight HRP's on a small ship can keep your speed and turning ability at the highest possible, as HP is not critical on say an Eagle - where undersizing is not an option, but having some is better than nothing at all, and can surprise in a battleBack to the topic: Hull Boost on HRP adds extra HP-s to the ship armor (bulkheads). But the math is a bit complicated:
HPa / [(100+HBa)/100] * [(100+HBa+HBr)/100]
where:
HPa - base ship hull HP-s with your chosen armor without any HRP-s
HBa - hull boost of armor, in percentage
HBr - hull boost of HRP, in percentage
I'll leave for someone else to figure out how the HRP hull boosts stack
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Bottom line: lightweight HRP-s are generally not worth it. If you need to save weight, undersize the HRP and add heavy duty to it--less weight and better resistances.
Thanks for highlighting this, you seem to have pinned it down nicely. I suppose there is a base value which is then augmented relative to the initial hull hit points, something like that. So for ships with greater base hull hit points, these things can be worth looking into, where as for smaller ships dropping down to smaller modules has the better effect.
Yep, that's why I'm looking at this, keeping my weight pinned to the minimum weight specked by my thrusters, I'm going to have to do it all again once I get my hands on a better thruster engineer.I agree, but also putting lightweight HRP's on a small ship can keep your speed and turning ability at the highest possible, as HP is not critical on say an Eagle - where undersizing is not an option, but having some is better than nothing at all, and can surprise in a battle
There is. Every ship has "hidden variables" not available to see in game; base armor hitpoints is one of those and is modified by the armor (bulkheads) module. Eg the standard armor ("Lightweight alloy bulkheads") has armor boost of 80%, which means it multiplies the ship base hitpoints by (100+80)/100=1.8
Not really. Heavy duty HRP-s have better overall boost and higher resistances. Big ships don't care about added weight, either.
I'm currently looking at maximising hit points and resistance, whilst pinning my weight to minimum thruster weight, for better turning.
Coriolis shows the same, so either both are wrong (not impossible) or it does, indeed, have a hardness of 60
It would be nice if it is the case, love the phantom, I'm going to keep investigating to see if I can find out. I see the Hull Boost now, in the bulkhead stats for the hull on EDSY. It is starting to get a little clearer. Logical really, the light weight additions are upping the structural surety, where as the heavy duty are adding material. There might be some method behind the madness after all!
In game it shows 55, same as Krait MKII. Maybe it was 60 at some point and got adjusted later? Or maybe it is 60 and the in-game display is wrong?
I was talking Hull Tank, thats where you are concentrating on Hull, but you need a fast cycling shield.
Using the extreme time build - (not practical but demonstrates max raw HP of 2065) with a prismatic 6A Reinforced Hi Cap on a Federal Gunship which has a bad shield multiplier with all 4 utilities
The same build using Thermal Resist Thermo Block TR/TB 6A Prismatic and 4 off 0A shield boosters with BR/TB, TR/TB, KR/FB, and KR/FB recharges the Prismatic shield in 2m 25 seconds.
Using the Bi Weave this drops to 1m 25 seconds. Both builds maintains an average 55% of resistances across the board. You can drop one of those to add a PD etc.
This example is using the 4% drop from the others on Explosive to maintain a high enough resistance whilst keeping the recharge as low as possible, which is very, very slightly better than fast charge
This build is not optimal for ships which are shield tanks, but is an option for Hull tanks.
I will leave it to you to plug in the numbers.
Between all the dangling pointer bugs and the 'dark patterns' in the game design, it's pretty tricky to find the 'wheel' that is the centre of it all
Ok, now I'm intrigued, please tell me more; What is this unclassified relic, of which you speak? I did have a long day of killing pirates for exquisite focus crystals, lined up, but I am certainly not adversed to dropping all of that for an adventure that brings about such treasures!
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