EPS is about the most useless console you can have, unless you extensively use Beam overload or constantly switch between power systems. Other than that it does nothing. It does not help in any shape or form to recover from weapon power drain when fireing your weapons. it only affects recovery rate after fireing a beam overload.

the shield gens work, you can see it for yourself. Just go into earth orbit and remove one, while looking at your shieldpoints...they will drop.

admirable bravery to go into battle against enemys that heavyly use plasma dots, without the single most usefull ability to counter them. respect

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I like the electrocreamic 35% to plasma resist , i usually stack as many as I can there is no diminished returns the numbers you see in your ship tables is false concerning armor resistances , the way armor works has been explained in depth by others in the pvp forums

Brace for impact and polorize hull are your best defense from torpedos i asorb torpedos spreads from donatra in my escort with only a tiny amout of damage to my hull

overall the neutroniums are good choices too because they offer good protection against any damage type , again the more the better, they are really nice to do stfs back to back with sb24 or any other encounter without worrying about changing them out

The EPS console is a poor choice imo replace it with something else that will benifit you

The best armor however is speed and manoverability

People who don't run armour in there builds and run numerous universal consoles are normally the first ones dead

Neutronium is the best one to use as it gives you good protection against everything including kinetic

You should try and balance between field generators and neutronium

Run as few universal consoles as possible

Please do me a favour and right click on your eps console scroll down to discard click that and that will help run it empty if you want probably would be better

That's odd. I find I have absolutely no problems keeping my shields up, but my hull was getting pounded through my shields. I stuck a Neutronium Alloy in, and that made a huge difference.

Your armor console make-up is irrelevant to diminishing returns from Damage Resistance Magnitude. No actual console has diminishing returns. If one armor console gives +40, then two gives +80, and three gives +120.

However, the numbers that armor consoles and abilities display are Damage Resistance Magnitude. Damage Resistance Magnitude has diminishing returns in relation to the Damage Resistance percentage we see in our ship status screens, which is what incoming damage is actually reduced by. See more details here.

Heh.

Like I said, you'd be surprised how well my little ship survives. I spend a lot of time flying around engulfed in plasma fire. Heck, now that I have that Omega plasma torpedo, I set myself on fire half the time. Between all my passive hull/shield bonuses, bridge officer skills, and everything my Engineer admiral brings to the table for healing, and using speed/cloak/subspace field modulator to keep my defense value high, I don't actually die all that often, and I only fly Defiants.

I don't run any armor consoles on any of my escorts, yet my ship almost always outlasts my fleet mates in ESTF's, fleet actions, and even occasional PVP. Virtually every console I run is a universal version (Borg Assimilated, Tachyokinetic, Zero Point Conduit, Rule-62 Combat Console, etc...), though I always equip a Field Generator and 4 or 5 tactical damage consoles.

My ships have similar layouts, except for me 1 Neutronium is preferable to 1 Field Generator. I find my shields don't drop, it's just bleedthrough and Plasma DoTs that hurt my hull.

hey if this works good for you that's great good on ya

just when i was taught this is what i was taught

I do agree that clickable consoles with no other passive states and 3+ minute cooldowns should be used sparingly.

I usually rely on speed-based defense rating to fend off a lot of incoming damage, along with the borg space set to regenerate when shields or hull get low.