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Crycarine
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Posted - 2007.02.19 13:45:00 -
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What's the difference between Resistance Plating and Energized Plating?
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Daftex Muleson
Minmatar UNITED KINGDOM MAYHEM
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Posted - 2007.02.19 13:50:00 -
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Edited by: Daftex Muleson on 19/02/2007 13:46:44 I think one is active (takes cap to keep it running) and one is passive...i.e. just provides a bonus. Active gives a better bonus but obviously is only on while you have the Cap to run it.
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Eleana Tomelac
Gallente Through the Looking Glass
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Posted - 2007.02.19 13:52:00 -
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Edited by: Eleana Tomelac on 19/02/2007 13:50:06 Both items are passive platings. Active modules are the "hardeners" and eat too much capacitor to be used on most of small ships.
energized plating uses 2 MW of powergrid and resistance plating uses only 1 MW. energized plating uses between 20-30 tf of CPU and resistance plating uses nothing.
Resistance plating reduces between 20-27% damage (less for adaptive).
Energized plating reduces 32,5% damage (less for adaptive).
The energized cost more to fit but protect you better, the resistance are very easy to fit and protect you less.
If you want to have better resistances with both types, you should consider learning EM/explosive/kinetic/thermic compensation (skills in mechanics). It will increase a bit the damage reduction of all platings. -- Pocket drone carriers (tm) enthousiast ! Flying Vexor and Ishkur, Myrmidon was too slow, got ganked by 3 BC and a Megathron...
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Crycarine
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Posted - 2007.02.19 14:22:00 -
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So energized plating is better, it's as simple as that? Because they're still very low requirements, doesn't seem like a Battleship would need to use Resistance Plating. Or is it that they really are just meant for Frigates?
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Daftex Muleson
Minmatar UNITED KINGDOM MAYHEM
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Posted - 2007.02.19 14:42:00 -
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My biggy....forgot there were 2 lots of passive!
Anyway, on a BS, if you are armour tanking it, I'm guessing you'd fit the active hardeners as that gives by far the biggest boost to resistance (+50% I think) and they'll have plenty of cap. All depends on your setup and what you are doing with it.
I use passive's on my Hurricane BC....a general Adaptive Nano Membrane one and a specific one to boost the weakest armour resistance stat which suits my current lvl3 mission running.
Often, frigate fittings are tight so you can't afford to fit a resistance mod. But then again, on a frig, speed is usually your friend.
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Eleana Tomelac
Gallente Through the Looking Glass
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Posted - 2007.02.19 14:49:00 -
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Resistance plating is good when you have no more CPU, it happens on frigates and cruisers (and more with rigs reducing CPU for example), and it happens even more when making a mining fit, if you need some damage resistance because of the belt NPCs, it's quite the only way.
Fot battleships, most of the time, the powergrid of 2 is nothing for their huge powergrids and fits easyly, they also have much CPU, but with the many slots, you may still have troubles and a low slot to fill with something with very low requirements.
If you can fit energized in your ship, do it, if the tank is your priority, use energized and hardeners and try to use less CPU with lower requirement guns or med slots modules.
Many frigates have a "light" CPU and the resistance plating may be the only thing that fits in.
Great tanks can be made with tech 2 energized platings and the armor compensation skills at level 4, and it leaves you loads of capacitor for other uses (guns, repairing, resisting NOS...), also, such plating will not fail you when you have no more cap.
Use the best when you can, and the named energized platings have lower CPU requirements if you have a hard time fitting your ship. -- Pocket drone carriers (tm) enthousiast ! Flying Vexor and Ishkur, Myrmidon was too slow, got ganked by 3 BC and a Megathron...
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