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20.1.5.6 Limited armors
Limited armors offer some interesting advantages and can be a good alternative to repairable
ones.
First of all, limited armor doesn't suffer the 1 pec equipment fee per piece.
That may not be of a huge interest, since it is "just" 7 pec equip for a unlimited armor set, but
still, it can add up.
Some people started to use cheap limited foot guards instead of shoes, which are even taken
off each time you equip foot guards usually and even decay 2 pec per equip.
So some L armor pieces became a clothes substutite.
A more interesting advantage of L armor is that the protection stays the same until it is totally
broken, unlike unlimted armors which protection becomes lower as they decay.
You can even keep the L armor on below 3% until it is totally broken and will have full
protection until it is totally broken, just notice that it can't be equipped again if the tt fell
below 3%, so if you want to use it up until 0 ped tt, don't take it off once it passed the 3%
border.
Especially for smart spenders L armors became an interesting alternative as well.
Due to its high durability, compared to unlimited armor 10 000 points more, the decay is
lowered considerably.
While a 500-1000 points difference in durability of armors doesn't mean much, 10 000 points
have an effect.
A good example for this is Rascal armor, since it has a limited and unlimited version and
offers the same protection.
While the 15 impact protection of the repairable one will cause a decay of 1.074 pec, the
limited one decays just 0.939 pec! This is a saving of around 15%.
Means if you can get the limited version below 115% you are actually saving pecs!
Those 15% are a good rule of thumb for most armors, bigger armors can even be cheaper per
hit up to 120-130%.
Also remember, since the protection stays the same over its whole lifetime, you may be able
to save a considerable amount of fapping cost, so even higher % might be useful.
The problem of L armors is of course the availability.
If you didn't get a new piece in time before the old one broke, you may have trouble to get a
new one soon, so you may try to get an additional piece of L armors when your old one is
about to break, to be able to substitute it fast.
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