Armorsmith Archive

There's a large variety of things that can be added. Rancor hide, fambaa hide, voritor hide. (NOT the segments, but the segment enhancers). Any sort of segment enhancer you can find, can go into chitin. Also, some creatures drop ready made chitin segments, with various special protections.

Sharnaff, Kliknik, and Bracaset all have useable chitin segments. in addition, the Kliknik segments have high HAM DROPS. ie instead of a 5% base effectiveness, and HAM costs of 6,7,6 for example, they have a 5% base resist and ham costs of -6,-7,-6 which means they lower the final HAM costs of the armor even more, sometimes nearly half the enc of normal chitin.

People should look into ALL the various armors. When hunting simple enemies, adding voritor segment enhancers to advanced mabari makes a 27% resist kinetic suit of Mabari with high Energy resist, and virtually NO HAM costs ( a MonCal artisan can slap on the full suit without a buff)

Tantel and higher all take factory segments. Chitin and Mabari do not. If you tailor your armor to what you hunt, you can get yourself a really nice set of protection, at a fraction of the 350K plus tag on Composite, no buffs needed. Much better for combat dabblers, novices, etc than a full suit of HAM-eating armor, low level missions it takes a full set of missions (5 or 6 runs) to pay for the buffs alone, that's a bit much for someone who has no need for the uber pvp armors.

Composite is still the be-all end-all for PVP and such, but don't let anyone tell you it's the only armor worth having, there's a lot of alternatives (yes, including faction armor. Less resists by far, but HAM costs are a fraction as well). Next time you want to go hunt some critters... take a second look at Sharnaff, who drop Scaly hide and segments for chitin.. and get yourself a suit that will protect nearly as well as Ubese with a fraction of the HAM costs.

Or, for the ultimate in price cutting....go snag some voritors. they have a small chance of segment enhancers that boost kinetic resists, and can be used inany armor, including chitin or mabari, or even bone.

To be honest on bria chitin is no cheaper then ubese to make really, what with the costs of harvestables.

some stats

Chitin Chest:
222 harvestables (bone and hide) x50cpu = 11100
62 mineral/chemical x25cpu = 1550
=12650 (cost to make)

Ubese Chest:
80 harvestables x50cpu = 4000
360 mineral/chemical x25 = 9000
=13000 (cost to make)

Which means chitin should be just as expensive as ubese, but there's no way it will sell for as much. These are just base costs. How much it costs me to make each item buying the materials I need at around average bria prices for top notch materials. Basic polymers and metals can be had for less then 25cpu, but named stuff of top quality goes for around that, figure I'd include them at 25cpu too for ease of calculations.

Now my ubese jackets are selling at 60k each. And there's no way I'd be able to even charge 25k per chitin chest, they wouldn't sell.

Heck, I recently deleted around 5 crates of advanced chitin segments to make room in my house. It would have cost me more in materials to make the armor then I could have gotten back in sales.

If I was after a lower ham alternative to ubese, I think I'd go for unlayered ubese. The HAM's would probably be comparable to chitin, with roughly the same kinetic protection. Heck... ham's might even be lower.

I really wish it were different, I like chitin. I despise the looks of ubese. But ubese is so much easier to make