Has anyone found how exactly the armour upgrades for Androids work? Because all that I've read on it is the note about there being Androids having an Armour Upgrade slot which can be used to install any one armour upgrade that can be installed into light armour.
For most of the upgrades available at low level this makes sense. However, by this logic I could give my android character tensile reinforcement since they can be installed into any armour and take up a single slot. Now the issue I have here is that tensile reinforcement essentially raises the hardness and hit points of your armour by 5 levels. This would normally make your armour more difficult to break. On average a sturdy piece of equipment has a number of hit points equal to 15+3*its level. So a first level object has 15, a second level object 21 and so forth.
But applying an armour upgrade to an android would effect their body from what I can tell, meaning that if I were to purchase this upgrade for my android I automatically raise their hit points to that of a fifth level character? Since it's being applied to the armour that is my own self?
As discussed in a previous thread (not your fault for not noticing, it's back a few pages and Search function is borked) Androids aren't objects or armor so wouldn't benefit from Tensile Reinforcement.
There's gonna be various armor upgrades that specifically ONLY applies to armor due to the specifics of what they do. Tensile Reinforcement is one of them as it specifically deals with changing an object's (it specifies it affects armor) properties (hardness and hit points)
Others would be able to be applied to androids upgrade slot with no issues. Such as jet pack as that's granting extra movement options, backup generator as it can be plugged into via external device, etc.
EDIT: D'oh! Ninja'd by Owen.
I'm going for backup generator for my android soldier! It would power up a battle harness no problems, I would think.