CPMA Armor Q

Post by **^misantropia^** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:11 pm

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1408849

Post by **a13n** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:23 am

Green 50% prot 100 max
Yellow 66% prot 150 max
Red 75% prot 200 max

So, when wearing a yellow armor with the value 49, it isn't necessarilly the best choice to pick up a fresh green, resulting in a green armor with the value 99, is it?

Assuming a player received 100 damage, the former receives 34, the latter 50.
This means a player with the health(35-50) with the yellow armor(?-49) should not have picked up fresh green armor, right?

Post by **^misantropia^** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:40 am

Not quite. Those numbers you state are the damage the armor catches. With that in mind (the result is the actual damage dealt to the player):

100 − 49 * 0.66 = 67.66
100 − 99 * 0.50 = 50.50

Post by **a13n** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:22 am

That means what matters mostly is the value of armor, not the color, right?
But there should be certainly a criteria whether players should pick up fresh green over the damaged yellow or not.
Even so it won't make any difference in most cases, I guess.