Herm... idk why it edited all the parameters, I just edited the text to make it clearer...

In T854#31271, @Keptick wrote:

Herm... idk why it edited all the parameters, I just edited the text to make it clearer...

on creation everything has a default value, if you edit it. You'll "confirm" these default parameters.

I always thought this was a Nerf to missiles VS Armour? I remember I had an old-turret style Artillery-Dreadnought volleying loads of missiles at max range and it would devastate a target that was hit, even though the missiles were mostly Ion effect.
Missiles only got even more ludicrous when the damage was doubled per block in an array. A mere 1000 Missile-beam-EXP used to absolutely crater a target back in the day I believe

I was reffered to this task after mentioning issues with pulses on chat. I can confirm that in the latest build this issue also occurs with damage pulse and warheads which would suggest that the issue is with the explosion system itself rather than something specific to missiles.

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I can't confirm, seems to work like it should.

the block armor HP damage absorption applies once, for the starting hit.
the block armor itself properly deducts from the remaining damage.

I tested this out with 2 custom blocks, 100 HP and 50% armor so effectively 200 EHP and another block with 100 HP

My missile did 3000 damage.
On a flat surface against the armored blocks (and without block armor HP enabled) I destroyed 1390 EHP.
On a flat surface against the unarmored blocks, I destroyed 1385 EHP.

There's no difference between them.

Now to make sure I replaced the target block of the unarmored ones with an armored block, hitting this should according to you cut my damage in half, I did destroy the same amount of EHP though.

To clarify, shooting a flat surface means you'll lose about 55% of your missile damage to open space, so make sure to compare your results with unarmored blocks of the same setup (also same block HP).
Another thing is that 50% block armor doesn't mean your whole damage is nerfed by 50%, it enhances the block EHP, not nerfs your damage.

So for example, say 100k missile damage gets applied to an armor block with 50% armor. Normally, the damage applied to the armor block would only be 50k and then the damage carried over to the next block would be 100k minus whatever the damage it took to destroy the armor block.

That 100K missile should deal around 50K (most likely less) damage on flat surface. Damage carried over to the next block would be 50K - block HP/(1- block armor)

In T854#41133, @lancake wrote:

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Works as intended, armor HP is supposed to enhance your armor against missiles, the bigger the missile, the more it is enhanced. It can reach huge numbers but that's what it's important to kill armor HP first, after that you'll shred through any block fast no matter what type of armor the target is using.

Yea, I figured that was the thing I didn't account for. How exactly DOES the armor HP mechanic work? (I mean the ship-wide hp, not per block).