Well I KNOW that that the amarr and gallante having a sh*t to n of armor is core to the eve universe and so is the caldari having shields, but based on the appearance of the suits and vehicles this is blatantly wrong....

The caldari suits and vehicles have very severe armor sloping and angling, therefore (in real life) causing the amount of material that a projectile must penetrate to increase, thus maximizing the effectiveness of the armor.... Now having effective armor is not a chracteristic of the caldari race.

The gallente and amarr suits and vehicles have very round and thin looking material surfaces, thus indicating that these would need a strong shield to counteract the weak armor.

Now I know that the caldari will never (stock) have strong armor, and amarr and gallante will always have the strong armor, but I was wondering if anyone else noticed this.

I am not wanting to change core game mechanics, but I wanted to start a discussion on people's thoughts on this.

exactly because angular armor is way more effective than the armor of the amarr and gallante

Oh and the whole "hardening on impact" is not an excuse, because maybe the Calderon have that same armor in addition to the anglinh

They don't.

The Caldari use simple Tritanium-Alloy plates over a thin kevlar like battle suit with a vast array of shield generators and shield computers. Their armor is resource and cost efficient, and isn't designed to take much damage. A Caldari suit has highly cost and resource efficient angled plates that are easy to mass produce. But they don't need any more than that, they have some of the best shields in the cluster.

So while their armor might be able to take a hit or three in some areas of the body, the thick self-hardening active armor on Gallente and Amarr suits are designed to take many hits even without their damage calculation computers offline.

The computers in armor (and shields) use sensor data to determine the angle, velocity, shape, structure, material, and density of incoming rounds, they use this data to harden the armor microseconds before impact, only in the areas that need to be hardened.
The armors of Gallente and Amarr aren't efficiently designed, they are made for performance.

define 'efficient'

id say our armor IS efficient it what its meant to do: deflect damage. Amarr a bit more than Gallente. but Gallente armor can repair better than Amarr armor after taking damage.


as fore the designs, i thought the same thing as the topic poster. then i realised that its just racial architecture. Gallente things have more feminine curves than the jagged Caldari things. perhaps under the jagged points are shield generators and computers though.

the designs are fine. they are just part of the lore.

Pretty much. It all boils down to lore.

The Amarr and Gallente armor is just so much more advanced that the angled design of the Caldari armor, while more efficient, just cannot compete.

Its like Kevlar vs Bronze. No matter how efficiently designed the bronze plates are, the Kevlar is just better. No amount of angling or honeycombing will allow it to stop a bullet better than the Kevlar will without simply using much more bronze.

Pretty much. It all boils down to lore.

The Amarr and Gallente armor is just so much more advanced that the angled design of the Caldari armor, while more efficient, just cannot compete.

Its like Kevlar vs Bronze. No matter how efficiently designed the bronze plates are, the Kevlar is just better. No amount of angling or honeycombing will allow it to stop a bullet better than the Kevlar will without simply using much more bronze.

*looks at title, ignores topic* i hate the caldri too but really it would only be fair to kill them all along with the amarr as well.

I KNOW that this is part of the lore (I said this in the original post)!

BUT isnt odd that the shield focused race has very effectively angled armor unlike the gallente and amarr?

*looks at title, ignores topic* i hate the caldri too but really it would only be fair to kill them all along with the amarr as well.