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what I do not get, about weapons like these: how does "armor piercing" factor into a weapon which, mostly, isn't there to deal with armour [first] to begin with, but rather shields (from a logical standpoint I do not get it anyway. Laser weapons - "p i e r c i n g" armor?... you can melt it, maybe; but that isn't ever "piercing", but actually "erasing", if you will; or just melting to no effect, i.e. it hardens again as it cooles down, to no breach-through effect occuring at all). Is the piercing gonna allow part of the damage to emit direct (100%) damage to moduls(/?), or is it gonna be scaled according to the factor that is inherint to the armor (e.g. -20% damage) ? ! ?

I find it interesting, that I can give Beam Lasers a "sturdy" treatment (engineering), which raises their "50%" (size 3 fixed; on level 3 already!) to the very interesting "70%" upper limit, which, absurdly, is the highest (?) value in the game, if we just look at armor hardness, which it scales up against . . .