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According to text events, tis stuff makes you immune to asteroids, but shields don't do a darn thing in protecting you. Of course, as we all know, shields or a defense drone are the ONLY things that can protect you in an asteroid field.

I'd be more willing to believe the text events if the Rock Hull Plating actually made you immune to hull damage from asteroids.

Well they make you immune to asteroids in the text base encounters with asteroids and plays a huge part in unlocking the [spoiler] cruiser.

It still has a high chance in ignoring asteroid damage... Maybe the rock armour lore wise is just immune to asteroids outside of combat as you can focus more on what you are doing.

thereaverofdarkness wrote:
I'd be more willing to believe the text events if the Rock Hull Plating actually made you immune to hull damage from asteroids.

That would be a nice little buff to the Rock Plating without making it completely overpowered - most of the time asteroids are actually making contact with the ship, they're either arriving with a large laser volley (in which case it's a tossup whether the asteroid or the laser is what's actually going to hit the ship), or the shields are down for some other reason (ionization or system damage), in which case the ship's going to take a lot of non-asteroid damage anyway.

I never understood why you can fight in an asteroid field with no problems in one beacon, and in the next your 4-shield ship can take damage from an asteroid field.

5thHorseman wrote:I never understood why you can fight in an asteroid field with no problems in one beacon, and in the next your 4-shield ship can take damage from an asteroid field.

Well if you don't like it, you could always mod events to account for high shields. Or suggest it for CE. So instead of taking damage in those events, you might unlock the Crystal Cruiser