Skill: Starship Hull Plating


 *  Note: This skill was replaced by and .

Starship Hull Plating is a Tier 4 Engineering skill available to all Starfleet and KDF Captains. Each increment of this skill costs 2,500 skillpoints.

Details
This skill improves your Starship's resistance to Energy damage - for instance, the damage from beam, cannon and turret weapons. It will not affect Kinetic damage (damage from Mines/Torpedoes). 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
 * 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 also stack with this skill. Unfortunately, because damage resistance suffers from diminishing returns, the actual damage resistance may be significantly less than expected.


 * Subspace Field Modulator

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.