Newcomer / Intro Weird armour

Frankymole

Frankymole
How does adding improvements to armour make it worse?

The Lightweight alloys for a Cobra Mk III have a higher rating in their "raw" form than when they are engineered.

How is this possible?

Edit: can a Hull Reinforcement Package make this much more difference than engineering?

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aRJay

aRJay
No engineering blueprint I can think of comes without a penalty of some sort, they are the red wheels you see while you are engineering a module.

An example is you can increase the range of your sensors but for each grade of upgrade you start the angle or field of view gets smaller.

Sometimes an experimental can offset that penalty but will introduce their own, it comes down to you deciding where to draw the line between the main benefit versus the penalties.
 
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Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
aRJay said:
No engineering blueprint I can think of comes without a penalty of some sort, they are the red wheels you see while you are engineering a module.
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The exception being heavy duty engineering to lightweight armour - no negatives at all as +10% (at G1 mod) of a mass of 0 = 0 LOL
 

Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
Frankymole said:
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Edit: can a Hull Reinforcement Package make this much more difference than engineering?
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Yes of course - it adds integrity but at a cost of carrying the extra mass and losing an internal slot. (Plus if you engineer that module it can add 624 to the integrity i.e nearly twice the stock improvement but at the cost of an extra 3.3t.)
 
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