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• Durability - This experimentation will alter the HAM costs and Integrity of the armour


• Quality - This will change the Base Effectiveness of the armour

These padded armour segments have some stats affected by the quality of the resources you use...

• Base Effectiveness is OQ50% / SR50%


• Integrity is OQ50% / SR 50%


• ArmourHealth Encumberance OQ100%


• Armour Action Encumberance OQ 50% / UT 50%


• ArmourMind Encumberance OQ 50% / SR 50%

So if your Overall Quality is very high, that helps every aspect of the armour. High Unit Toughness and Shock Resistance is also going to improve certain stats.

I created two different pieces. One was with good quality resources, and the other with average to low.

Good: Base: 4%, Integrity: 231, HAM: 5/7/5

Bad: Base: 4%, Integrity: 196, Ham: 6/7/6

Overall, pretty similar, but adding them together with the other components may make them pathetic. I would like an armoursmith to judge that....

Armorsmiths are telling me to put everything I can into "quality" and anything that helps durability and encumberance is just gravy. That also means that OQ and SR are the important stats.

I stated this in another thread, but after several hours of experimentation last night with a ton of different materials, it would appear that you can get a 4% base easily with OQ+SR greater than 1500 (average of 750 each).

I managed to get a run of segments up to 89% by using OQ 945 and SR 950 wooly, 1000 OQ and 600 SR FP...that's pretty much the best I've seen on my server. This AS is correct...the HAM costs are so low, just plunk all your experiment points into the effectiveness, and stick whatever you have left into making it 'lighter'

No, the Tailor Apron gives you +5 Clothing experimentation.

+10 clothing experimentation gives you just 1 more 'experimentation point' (exp pt. here). Masters get 10 of those points, so if you had +10 clothing tapes, you'd have 11 exp. pts.

The best way to check this is look at your skills sheet: you will see something like 'Clothing Experimentation +100/+110'

If it's +100/+109...too bad.

The max you can get is 12 exp. pts, so +100/+120. Every +10 gets you one more point...no rounding up!

Clear as mud?

Message Edited by Nuke490 on 03-31-2004 11:25 AM

Rizzaka,

for Armorsmiths that extra 2 points makes a world of difference. As it stands now, if you are a master AS with only 10 exp. points you won't make nearly the money as 12 point masters. This is because with composite hitting the resist caps is no problem. It all comes down to how low HAM you can get with the extra points.

Now, this might not matter as much to tailors right now, but as heavier wookie armor comes out that requires experimented tailor components this could possible mean the difference between rich tailors and poor tailors, at least as far as the padded segments go. Armor exp. tapes go for 1 mill or more a point.

Though at this point HAM on wookie armor is low, the lower the better. if you could make the same 90+% quality segments with base of 4% and HAM at 2/2/2 you could probably charge a bit more for schematics or segments.