2 armor questions (That got answered! Thanks much)

That may or may not work, but it's a logical mess. I don't want to even try parsing it.

Consider that A is the statement:

Get_Design_Specific_Component_Count ("Composite Armor") >= 1

and B is the statement:

Get_Design_Specific_Component_Count ("Energy Refractive Armor") >= 1

It follows that !A (not A) is thus:

Get_Design_Specific_Component_Count ("Composite Armor") < 1

and !B (not B) is thus:

Get_Design_Specific_Component_Count ("Energy Refractive Armor") < 1

Consider for a moment that TRUE = 1, and FALSE = 0.

We can construct the following truth table:

A   B   Output
0   0   1
0   1   1
1   0   1
1   1   0

For reference, the first line means that when A and B both equal 0, our result is 1. In terms of tech reqs, this means if we have neither any Composite Armor nor any Refractive Armor, the requirement is satisfied. It only fails to be satisfied when A = B = 1, or when we have both. Now back to the logic:

This truth table represents a fairly simplistic boolean function:

A NAND B

NAND is literally the inversion of AND; it returns 0 when both values are 1, 1 otherwise.

Unfortunately, we do not have a NAND operator, so we must express things in terms of OR, AND and NOT. Since NAND is the inversion of AND, this is simply:

!(A AND B)

And in SE5 function speak:

NOT ( Get_Design_Specific_Component_Count ("Composite Armor") >= 1 AND 
Get_Design_Specific_Component_Count ("Energy Refractive Armor") >= 1 )

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How is it tedious? You just have to add one ability and one requirement to each type of external mount missile (apparently there is no Get_Design_Specific_Component_Percentage_Of_Hull_Space function).

Ability:

Number Of Abilities := 1
Ability 1 Type := AI Tag 01
Ability 1 Description :=
Ability 1 Scope := Space Object
Ability 1 Range Formula := 0
Ability 1 Amount 1 Formula := 0
Ability 1 Amount 2 Formula := 0 

Requirement:

Requirement X Description                       := One cannot use more than 25% of the hull to mount external missiles.
Requirement X Formula                           := Get_Design_Ability_Percentage_Of_Hull_Space("AI Tag 01", "") <= 25

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AI Tags are an ability like any other; they just happen to have literally no functional role. You can even assign them values to create a complex power plant requirement scheme.

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Is it in some way possible to change the order components take damage ?

I think it would be nice to spread the damage taken evenly on all components involved
from outside to inside
shield -> armor -> outer hull -> inner hull

I read about leaky to, but thats not what I meant,

I meant the damage order explained earlier in this thread, that components beeing damaged in the same order they were placed on the ship

I wanted to know if there is any way to change this

Not at all

What I wanted to know, and if I understood previous post correctly, is

the current system of damage application works like this
if I place i.e. three armor components on a ship c1,c2,c3 and my ship takes 50 damage
then c1 will take 50 damage and c2 and c3 are not scratched at all.
when more damage is applied c1 will eventually get destroyed and c2 gets damaged .. and so on ..

what I like to know is if this can be changed ( if it is the way it works at all )

so that .. firt shield goes down ... its treated as one entity allready,
then all armor is damaged evenly, then outer and inner components. ( i know i ignore skipping abilities )

applied to the example it means my ship takes 60 damage which is spread out on
c1,c2,c3 each take 20 damage ( 60 is just easier divided than 50 ^^ )
until all armor is destroyed

Note that the ShieldAndArmorLevels.txt file has no effect at this time. All mixed shield types are treated as normal points and armor is damaged in the order it's placed. I've mentioned to MM several times that damage should follow the order of components as laid out in the ShieldAndArmorLevels.txt file, but no fix yet.

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So the answer to my initial question is : if not hardcoded, then no.