Shield Mitigation and Base Armor

how does this work?

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In the ships files there is BaseArmorPoints and MaxMitigation. Can someone please help me by explaining how this works, aka damage calculations, as I want to mod the hull and weapon damage and don't want to throw everything out.

Secondly, how does the armorType affect the damage? I noticed it's light, medium or heavy...but not a value?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Each damage type has a bonus/penalty against various armor types. Check this thread for details:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=452&aid=177602
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Yes, I would also like to know what in the world shield mitigation means. Thank you.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Shield mitigation takes the mitigation % off the top of any incoming damage. It rises as the ship takes damage; focus firing on a ship will cause it to rise quickly and stay at max. If a ship is taking little/no damage, its mitigation will fall to the minimum.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Thanks! That was helpful! What about the MaxMitigation and BaseArmorPoints?
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MaxMitigation is how high up it can go (the values are percentages with 1.0 being 100%). BaseArmorPoints is how much armor the ship starts with ;)
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Thanks! That was helpful! What about the MaxMitigation and BaseArmorPoints?MaxMitigation is how high up it can go (the values are percentages with 1.0 being 100%). BaseArmorPoints is how much armor the ship starts with
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What he said - and remember that mitigation applies whether the ship has any shields left or not (the term 'shield mitigation' seems a little misleading - I'm not sure why it's not just referred to as 'mitigation').

As far as I know, the devs have not confirmed how Armour actually works, although there are theories based on some info from the game files.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
I'm not sure why it's not just referred to as 'mitigation'
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Originally, it only applied while shields were up. The first clue anyone had that this had changed was when we got the manual.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
As far as I know, the devs have not confirmed how Armour actually works, although there are theories based on some info from the game files.
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I'm fairly sure each point of armour increases effective hp by 5%, but it's non-commulative, ie. 2 armour wouldn't increase hp by 10%, it would do it by 5% + 5%*95% = 9.75%

I'm partly guessing this from the gameplay.constants "HullPointPercentageIncreasePerArmorPoint 0.05", and partly because that's how it works in warcraft 3 and this game seems to have borrowed quite a lot from warcraft 3 :p