Decivre wrote:

jmb75 wrote:

Actually, I see now that on page 203 of the main book it gives stats for the armor and durability of habitat walls. I guess they can withstand a lot of damage up to a point. I assumed the walls would have to be pretty durable in order to withstand mini-asteroids, but nothing is indestructable. I'd still be curious to hear about how anyone's been handling this in their own games if you care to comment.

Generally, I handle every wound to a wall as a puncture and potential breach. If a player wishes to intentionally breach a wall with a weapon incapable of dealing a wound, then taking down all hit oints is enough to completely take out a section of wall, enough so to cause a massive breach. Also note that I generally handle melee combat in similar kind. Hand-to-hand combat that occurs close to a wall (such as in a grapple) risks damage to the wall just as easily as ranged combat. Luckily, melee damage tends to be far lower than ranged weapon damage.

nezumi.hebereke wrote:

Keep in mind that habitat walls are going to have several layers of active and passive security. Their stats are pretty high (something like 500 armor, 1,000 durability?) which means they're not likely to be breached with any equipment you'd be permitted to carry in an inhabited habitat, and they'll be under several layers of surveillance against any sort of intentional or accidental breach (since, you know, breach = everyone dies). And all said and done, they're likely to shoot first and ask questions later.

Darksier wrote:

While it seems that the external walls of (well constructed) habitats have advanced composite armor plating, it would seem to me that you wouldn't want to construct with too much mass. So I always describe the habitats and ships as having very lightweight interior construction. As a general rule, any firearm with an AP >5 will damage interior components should they miss (electrical components, plumbing, people in the next room, munitions locker, etc..). This encourages the use of low penetration weapons and ammo types. Even now in the modern world law enforcement don't use high penetration rounds because of the risk of a missed shot going through walls and hitting bystanders. If your players insist on having high powered firefights in tin cans you should describe it suitably and maybe even have an "oops the control room was behind that killbot you went full auto on" moment.