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Offline Jumpp (OP)

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What does the Armour pulldown on a Magazine do?
« on: November 05, 2012, 10:01:59 PM »
I'm designing a new magazine to take advantage of some recent tech improvements.

I observe that:

- the Feed System Efficiency affects the capacity per HS.
- the Magazine Ejection System affects the explosion chance
- the HTK field trades capacity per HS for improved HTK

And the Armour pulldown has no effect that I can see.  It doesn't seem likely that that pulldown would be there if it didn't do something.  What am I overlooking?
 

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Re: What does the Armour pulldown on a Magazine do?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2012, 11:14:46 PM »
magazines always use the best armor, so its just a left over feature from earlier probably. The armor used factors into the HTK-size calculation that determines how much capacity you give up for each point of HTK.
 

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Re: What does the Armour pulldown on a Magazine do?
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, 12:46:43 AM »
Cool.  That makes sense.  And it explains why I was unable to reproduce the magazine I'd made earlier with lower armor tech.  That was kind of driving me nuts.  Thanks.