User blog comment:Tribaldragon1/Tribal's Arena of Doom/@comment-27822653-20160111041657/@comment-27797576-20160111171314

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Yeah, I don't really think that counts. Not only does it make it hard to keep track of, it's impossible to tell them it's GM or not possible or etc. I mean, orders for, like, telling each other what to do for an invasion is acceptable for encoding. Technology, though, it either needs to have the encryption code included, or have no encryption in the first place. Otherwise, it may as well not exist in RP, because nobody in the general community knows about it, and hence it's effectiveness in combat is exactly 0, as everyone assumes that you have the normal Yevata armor. And when you say it's different, then they will look for it only to find there is NOTHING on the research, and yeah...

Also marc, I should state that Yevata armor can't really have much greater effectiveness by changing the compisition of the armor. Lighter materials would decrease the effectiveness of the armor, and lighter, more effective armor would make the armor astronimcally more expensive and un-mass producable(which is what keeps ISR and Yevata composite at a reasonable price, by overproducing the armor it needs). You have to resort to other methods to increase the effectiveness of the armor. Of course, you can increase the effectiveness against certain types of projectiles, but to enhance thickness against all possible sources, you need to rely on something other than changing the chemical composition, such as face-hardened plates, polarizing the atoms to be most effective outwards towards the target, using extremely dense materials(possibly in the radioactive range) sandwiched in between the composite plates(even that isn't that great), etc.