emissive armor

[travislp]

This has probably already been asked and answered but does emissive armor stack? ie; if I have two components that ignore 40 points each is my total 80? Or is only one component per ship active?

[Suicide Junkie]

Only one component is effective per ship, and if you are hit for 41 points of damage, that "ignore 40 damage" emissive armor does nothing.
Sad but true.

[Andrés]

It's not sad, it's how it's always been described and how it should work.
If you wanted it to work somehow else, then you were wishing for a new ability.

The emissive armor bug was that damage was not being comletely ignored but somehow stored as partial damage and eventually added to a more than 41 shot negating the usefulness of the ability.

And another problem is that fighter shots DO stack, a group of 5 fighters armes with a 20 damage weapon do 20*5=100 damage in one shot, make this ability useless against fighter weapons, that are most of the low damage weapons they should protect you from.

[rextorres]

I like to call it dismissive armore myself

[travislp]

So if only one per ship is effective what about bumping up the damage amount that the armor blocks. To say something like 100 or more

[Cyrien]

Indeed. The fighter weapon stacking damage seems to be the biggest problem here. It should fire all weapons of similiar type as a stack but discontinue all the damage if the basic damage of the weapon is lower than emissive. Or something that would make it an anti fighter armor.