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Richard LeMoon:
I use a few terms. 'Hull' means the component fixpoint, armor or not.  "Ignore the hull, keep firing." means don't worry about the hull fixpoint.

If I am talking about a target, I use the term 'hull' as anything not gun, balloon, or engines. "Go for hull shots only." I tend to call the armor going down a 'Hull break'.

That is all ingame, though. In lobbies, hull is your HP, and armor is the rebuildable part. Generally referred to as 'Hull HP' and 'Armor points'. That is just me.

Mean Machine:
For me, armor - rebuildable and hull - not rebuildable. I don't see how it could be any different and why so many people say hull and perma hull. I see armor as shields, since usually in space games you have shields and hull. Shields are rechargeable and hull is... well the body of the ship.

obliviondoll:
The term "hull armour" can be shortened to "hull" slightly more easily than it can be to "armour" (one syllable instead of two). Under the armour, your hull durability doesn't seem to get much shorter when called durability, and there isn't an efficient and popular short-hand for that word. As such, "hull" makes much more sense to use there. This means that, viewed alone, both would seem best-suited to "hull" as their short form. Given the more extreme variance on hull durability, I'm inclined to run with calling that "hull" and referring to hull armour as "armour".

But that's just me. Lots of people don't clarify what they're talking about and yell "HULL" in a panicked voice, so you can easily assume whichever meaning you would personally use - whether that be "hull armour is down, needs repair" or "hull durability is dropping, needs armour"

sparklerfish:

--- Quote from: Richard LeMoon on September 02, 2014, 05:44:08 pm ---I use a few terms. 'Hull' means the component fixpoint, armor or not.  "Ignore the hull, keep firing." means don't worry about the hull fixpoint.

If I am talking about a target, I use the term 'hull' as anything not gun, balloon, or engines. "Go for hull shots only." I tend to call the armor going down a 'Hull break'.

That is all ingame, though. In lobbies, hull is your HP, and armor is the rebuildable part. Generally referred to as 'Hull HP' and 'Armor points'. That is just me.

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This is how I usually use the term too.  If it's a circumstance where it would be ambiguous, I use "permahull" or just "perma" to refer to hull HP, and "armor" to refer to hull armor.

If you can tell from context, I just say "hull".

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