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- Note: This skill was replaced by Hull Plating and Ablative Hull Plating.
This skill improves your Starship's Damage Resistance to Kinetic and Physical damage - for example the damage from torpedoes, mines, and other large explosions. The higher your Damage Resistance, the less damage you will take from an attack.
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Starship Armor Reinforcements is a Tier 5 Engineering skill available to all Starfleet and KDF Admirals. Each increment of this skill costs 3,000 skillpoints.
Details[ | ]
This skill improves your Starship's Damage Resistance to Kinetic and Physical damage - for example the damage from torpedoes, mines, and other large explosions. The higher your Damage Resistance, the less damage you will take from an attack. More specifically, this skill increases your damage resistance magnitude, instead of increasing the damage resistance directly.
Abilities Affected[ | ]
Abilities that increase damage resistance magnitude or damage resistance stack with this skill. Unfortunately, because damage resistance suffers from diminishing returns, the actual damage resistance may be significantly less than expected.
- Attack Pattern Omega
- Auxiliary to Structural
- Auxiliary to Dampeners
- Brace for Impact
- Polarize Hull
- Hazard Emitters
- Scattering Field
- Engineering Fleet
- Fire on my Mark (Space) (debuff)
- Sensor Scan (debuff)
Items Affected[ | ]
In addition to abilities, items that increase damage resistance magnitude or damage resistance als o stack with this skill. Unfortunately, because damage resistance suffers from diminishing returns, the actual damage resistance may be significantly less than expected.
Rank Progression[ | ]
| Rank | Bonus | DRM | Base DR | Base + Accolade DR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | +18 | 2.7 | 2.6% | 4.5% |
| 2 | +36 | 5.4 | 5.1% | 6.9% |
| 3 | +54 | 8.1 | 7.5% | 9.2% |
| 4 | +64 | 9.6 | 8.8% | 10.4% |
| 5 | +74 | 11.1 | 10.0% | 11.6% |
| 6 | +84 | 12.6 | 11.2% | 12.7% |
| 7 | +89 | 13.35 | 11.8% | 13.3% |
| 8 | +94 | 14.1 | 12.3% | 13.8% |
| 9 | +99 | 14.85 | 12.9% | 14.4% |
Terms[ | ]
- Base DR - The amount of damage resistance given by the skill if no other devices, consoles, skills, abilities, or accolades are modifying the character's DRM.
- Base + Accolade DR - The amount of damage resistance given by the skill and associated damage receiving accolade if no other devices, consoles, skills, or abilities are modifying the character's DRM.
Note: The damage resistance magnitude is what stacks here, not the damage resistance.
Notes[ | ]
- Each bonus point increases the DRM (Damage Resistance Magnitude) for kinetic damage by the amount of the bonus divided by 20 and multiplied by 3. At rank 6, for example, the DRM will increase to 12.6 (84/20*3). Before investing heavily in this skill, it is advisable to experiment with Armor Consoles because DR (Damage Resistance) suffers from diminishing returns as DRM increases. So, if you equip 4 Neutronium Alloy MXII Very Rare consoles (+80 DRM), the added benefit of maxing out this skill only provides an additional 3.2% DR (+80+14.85 DRM = 46.3% DR verses +80 DRM = 43.1% DR).
- The Torpedo Target Accolade will add an additional 2 DRM (not 2% DR).
- The Starship Threat Control skill also stacks with this skill.
- The counterpart to this skill is the Starship Hull Plating which increases all energy DRM instead of kinetic DRM.