A worn studded leather shirt and darkened platemail protect you roughly equally against piercing attacks.
A worn studded leather shirt should give better protection against blunt attacks than darkened platemail.
A worn studded leather shirt should give better protection against slashing attacks than darkened platemail.
A worn studded leather shirt should give better protection against the elements than darkened platemail.


You stop using darkened platemail.
You wear a worn studded leather shirt on your body.

Darkened platemail and a worn studded leather shirt protect you roughly equally against piercing attacks.
Darkened platemail should give better protection against blunt attacks than a worn studded leather shirt.
Darkened platemail should give better protection against slashing attacks than a worn studded leather shirt.
Darkened platemail should give better protection against the elements than a worn studded leather shirt.

It was checking the wrong AC values on one of the armor pieces, which is why the order mattered, but it was also probably giving some incorrect information. All of that is fixed now.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com