Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How about upgrading the reactive Armour hardener BPC's to allow for invention to a tech II variant.

This would use charge scripts to preset the resists to a given profile (e.g. 40/40 against Therm/Kin for anti-hybrid).

The charge script gives a boost to the usual maximum split of resists, but this is lost if the resists shift due to incoming damage types, reverting back to the normal resists (perhaps slightly higher as it's tech II)

Charge script reload times would need to be balanced to not allow boost shifts too quickly.

To avoid a sudden glut of tech II's due to the huge number of junk BPC's already in hangars these would be automatically converted to tech II BPC's on a 1-whatever basis as determined by the actual numbers in existence. The tech II BPC's would then naturally seed the markets with tech II modules over a few days.

I'm certainly open to suggestions, it was just a thought on a possible way to improve the utility of the module and make the BPC's useful and actually worth finding.

A further thought on the scripting side would be that the script works like a boosting charge by resetting the resists to 40/40 (or whatever is appropriate) at the start of each cycle. Subsequent hits then re-balance the RAH as usual to the normal levels between cycles.

Making it Faction rather than tech II might be a better idea actually, then the components come from the same sites as the BPC's and gives explorers more to find in the data sites.

You already have something that adapts its resistances to the incoming damage, without any stack penalty, and you want something scriptable ?

I'd rather say, a tech2 version with better cycle time and / or a better resistance pool (let's say 80 total instead of 60) but with fitting needs much bigger, why not.

But IMO, the reactive hardener actually need no changes...

No, Damage control, RAH and normal hardener can be put together without stack penalties

I like this mod very much. In fact, I would never fit my Sacrilege without one. A t2 variant would sound intriguing but then would make it mandatory.

I am not opposed to one but in some combinations you can get a resistance shift to 99% already.

Right now the reactive hardener bpc's are only available as loot drops - you can't buy a bpo so a T2 version is unlikely, and would arguably be overpowered. The RAH gives you resists where you need them with 1 slot as long as you expect the fight to last long enough to complete its shift. It is stacking penalized with the DCU but not other hardeners