Is Cargo a Valid Hit Location if There is no Actual Cargo?

[Mettius]

Originally Posted by swordtart

Fully concur with kjamma.

Technically there doesn't even have to be any weight left over for there to be a cargo location. This makes sense, if your luxury car is just as big as another luxury car but it only has half the internal space used up then it is more likely the penetrating hit would pass through an empty area. Of course it is an abstraction, you could have a luxury with 1/3 of a space left (2 mini rockets take up 2/3 space). There is the same 1/3 chance of hitting that tiny cargo area as a luxury with the majority of it's space. So giving up less than 2% of your internal space you can gain a 33% immunity to internal hits. This is of course really cheesy :)

Makes sense. However, if one has zero space left over (even if excess weight is left over) and no dedicated cargo, then it would not be a hit-able location.