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« on: July 25, 2022, 12:45:37 PM »
I was reading through the mod page again, specifically with the image you made to show some of the mod's features and explain armor and projectiles and I have a question about the line "It stays as strong against the last hit as the first". Does this mean that you don't include armor fatigue in your armor simulations? I know armor fatigue generally isn't talked about that often when talking about armored land vehicles, especially things like MBTs facing other MBTs as usually, the first shot IS the last shot, but armor fatigue is still a real thing, especially in naval vessels. In case you or others aren't aware of what this property is, to put it simply, its the idea that the more a single area of armor is struck or penetrated, the less resistant it will be to penetration the next shot; this property is especially important in the application of NERA Composite armor that uses ceramic plates as one of its components as the ceramic can fracture or be destroyed upon penetration or when struck with a strong enough force thus reducing the composite screen's effectiveness.
I don't doubt that this property would be a pain to program as you would have to look at a projectile's velocity upon impact, its damage type and whether or not it penetrated and then calculate the loss in efficiency based on those figures for a countless number of weapons (and maybe even ships if you wanted to include ramming), so I totally understand if you chose not to simulate armor fatigue, but I feel that the armor staying as strong at 15 shells as it did before getting hit at all might not be so realistic. Also if you really wanted to go mad, you could even include an armor's temperature for its resilience as there are literal laser beams hitting a target that would certainly generate tons of heat. Not to mention weapons like flame/plasma throwers added by mods, or omega weapons which use ice for damage (although in theory that would make the face of the armor more strong but maybe the whole thing more brittle past a certain coldness?).