Aurora 4x

New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Jumpp on November 05, 2012, 10:01:59 PM

Title: What does the Armour pulldown on a Magazine do?
Post by: Jumpp 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?

Title: Re: What does the Armour pulldown on a Magazine do?
Post by: Nathan_ 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.

Title: Re: What does the Armour pulldown on a Magazine do?
Post by: Jumpp 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.