Org & Crystal armor question

[Slick]

Do the regenerating effects happen after each shot or after each combat turn or what?

Slick.

[Ed Kolis]

Organic armor regenerates itself after each combat turn.
Crystalline armor regenerates the shields after each shot.

[XenoTheMorph]

I belive for Crystaline Armour it is for every shot that hits the armour. For Organic I think it only 'heals' after each combat turn.
(These are quite complex subjects if you wish to know exactly how they work!)

Boo! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif To late!

[Slick]

Thanks!

Slick.

[PvK]

Org armor also heals completely at the end of a battle, and doesn't heal if it hasn't been damaged. That might seem obvious, but until a couple of patches ago, neither was true.

PvK

[Slick]

I think that you need at least 1 undamaged org armor to be intact after the battle to get them all to heal. Or am I wrong on this?

Slick.

[Captain Kwok]

Slick said:
I think that you need at least 1 undamaged org armor to be intact after the battle to get them all to heal. Or am I wrong on this?


That's right.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Wouldn't a ship with Org and Cryst armor be nearly invulnerable?

[Alneyan]

Alas, the Organic Armour would not regenerate the Crystalline Armour. P&N and its cross-over racial techs do give a regenerating Crystalline Armour, but it takes more space; I have yet to try it though, and couldn't say if the regeneration is much of an improvement.

[Suicide Junkie]

Not really; unless the organic armor gets hit before the crystalline, you don't get the organic bonus.
Plus, you're decreasing your crystalline total, which is almost never "enough" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Now, if you were to mod the organic armor to be 1/6th in every stat (size, regen, hitpoints) then it would be a totally awesome combo.
The mini-OA gets hit first almost always, and regens, while the CA keeps the shields pumped.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Thanks.

[Suicide Junkie]

Alneyan said:
Alas, the Organic Armour would not regenerate the Crystalline Armour. P&N and its cross-over racial techs do give a regenerating Crystalline Armour, but it takes more space; I have yet to try it though, and couldn't say if the regeneration is much of an improvement.

The P&N Biocrystal armor takes the same space, and gives you 60% of both of the "purebred" abilities.

The key advantage is that your CA ability dosen't stay broken for long http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Alneyan]

Oops; it looks like I confused your Biocrystal armour with the one from Devnull. (I would gladly pick either for my ships though)

Using a mini OA would be a very good idea, rather than the usual Ablative/Plasma armour. A nasty combination to say the least.