hi all.how do you balance out hull plating and defence ? should i max out defence space before i start on hull plating? thanks in advance.

In my opinion, you should start on hull plating. If you are just starting (which it sounds like you are, might be wrong), then I think starting on hull would be better because of the good use of space. The best part is when people attack you and wonder if your hull ever runs out!

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a good balance of both is good.

you dont want a paperlike hull nor do you want a tiny defense in my opinion research both

am with the Vygoid Genome .but thanks for the offer.

It also depends on your ship size. How much you need defense increases as your size increases. This means that Hull is good to start with, because you don't need a lot of space for it, but as your needs start increasing and the size of your ship increases, you need to add defense to keep up with the damage you take.

like what one of the uber PvPers in my legion explained the hull is like raw defense for when someones attack completely annialates your defense, so i would say prioritise hull over defense but try to put some defense in there.

definately hull, I wasted 80 energy on a rank 80-90 who seemed to have 3k hull! (16 hits at 200 damage a hit!)

personally, i focus as much as i can on hull.
the only defencive modules i have on are mission and npc modules.
It must be doing me good as i have only had 28 disables and im rank 149.

max out yer hull plating and defenses shields seem worthless at lower levels anyways ,if your a konqul fixer then definitley hull I ran alot of hull plating myself and now am using all my rank points towards crew which helps on the defense side but ive also researched up defenses too not so much on shield tho ,
now the flip side of that is shields regen for free so if ya max out yer shield tech it will regen fast enuff and you dont have to use drones or pay to repair
look at yer race specific perks and profession as well before deciding yer balance

I'd say try to keep the equal in research tree level.
Albeit i have finished both of those researches. but i just
took out 7 people from battle tab ad only had to repair once.
This due both to massive hull, and defence (took around 2-300dmg a hit, gave 600-1400 a hit).s

If someone is determined to disable you no amount of hull or def will stop them. i went hull first as it makes npc farmin easier.