Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Armor Slicing
Is it just mee or do you guys get lower efectiveness slices on armor than encumberance slices?
I have never gotten over a 20% on efectiveness and i am slicing 4 but i get in the high 20s to 30 uasualy on encumberance. Is that just how it is or is something wrong there?
same as weapons, 100c per %
But if it is 5 items or more, i charge 75c per % as a discount.
Most folks say, "nah stick with 100c it's easier to figure out" 
Ok, I read the faq. I know that you can slice armor for protection, or encumbrances, but you have no control over which you hit. My question is, are the two interrelated? If you do a slice, that ups the protection, does it automatically up the encumbrance? If you do a slice the lowers encumbrance, does it automatically lower the protection?
I have a set of advanced Ubese that I could live with the way it is, but if I could lower the encumbrance, so much the better. I would be willing to take the chace that I would get a protection bump instead, but not at the risk of raising the encumbrance.
Thanks all.
When you affect one stat, you only affect that stat, and the stat you affect always goes up.
For instance, apply the clamp, cut the wires, and you get a slice. It will be either encumbrance or effectiveness, one or the other. Let's say 20% encumbrance - effectiveness is not changed for better *or* worse. Same things for slicing weapons.
So, to sum up - you only affect one stat at a time, it always goes up and the other stats is totally unaffected by your slice.
Cheers!
I should add, a slice never lowers a value. The worst you can do is not pay attention and after the clamp tells you which wire to cut, you cut the *other* one and botch it.
In that case the item sliced remains unchanged, but can never be sliced again, as in no smuggler, you or someone else, will ever be able to slice it.
Slicing seems to be random. Sometimes (with armor) you will get Encumberance reduced per piece, and sometimes you'll get an Effectiviness (taking your [edit]secondary resists higher, but not your 66% Kenetic[/edit]) increase.
Cost is dependant solely on the person slicing.
Edit: Thanks for the correction folks.
Message Edited by Ka-oan on 02-19-2004 10:36 AM