Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20151212141734/@comment-26172435-20151212211630

Direranger50 wrote: AlteOgre wrote: Direranger50 wrote: How is gold lighter than iron... It has a higher specific mass but is easier to form into a desired plate armor shape, and more expensive. Therefore I assume average plate thickness of gold armor would be optimized and smaller than that of iron plate armor. Hence the nett lower weight. They use the same amount of gold and iron, which I assume because the crafting recipes are the mass.

Like in real metallurgy and metal working, we cannot assume the consumption figures represent the final products mass. Efficiency losses are a fact of life. But whatever discussion about a bill of materials and a nett mass balance ... I did not base the proposed weights on the crafting recipes at all. I based them om factual information on real life armor and used materials. The crafting recipes are of no relevance to my approach, even though I do wish to see more realistic armor crafting recipes ... but that would be another suggestion thread. :)