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Why Is Steel Being Used for Armor Plating?

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Esna Pitoojee
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#21 - 2014-08-11 04:57:23 UTC
Alvatore DiMarco wrote:
CCP Falcon wrote:
Tavin Aikisen wrote:
Not to mention, do we really know what their definition of steel is? Could have anything mixed into it by then.


Exactly.

There's a lot of misconception about Tritanium for instance, too, that are well documented with a lot of players wondering why half the ships in EVE don't spontaneously combust Lol



I could have sworn that Tritanium was only unstable inside an atmosphere.


This is correct, but our ships must have an atmosphere to support crew, and station interior sometimes appear to have an atmosphere as well. A lot of people were confused by that, until the "alloyed tritanium" argument popped up.
Bohneik Itohn
10.K
#22 - 2014-08-16 04:56:13 UTC
Availability. As an example steel became so scarce during both world wars that they started building warships out of concrete (mostly as an experiment and proof of concept in case the war continued longer than steel supplies could hold out altogether, but they were still built in not-insignificant numbers).

If there isn't enough supply for your demand, there isn't enough supply. Find something else. Moar is better is also a common mantra when it comes to military armor engineering.

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