Here's what the rulebook says:

Here's what the PAC says:
It just popped into my head for some reason. One of those things that may have been done some time back but never came up and never made me question anything, and then suddenly it occurred to me.

Object damage is added to damage dealt by a character using CCE, respecting the rule of three now?

Right.

/filler

Thanks for the verification.

I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing some totally obvious something somewhere.

It is added to the damage value, not the damage dealt.

This is an important difference, since the rule of three is only interested about combat values and damage dealt is not a combat value.

Seeing as how I mentioned respecting the rule of three, I think it should be clear that I knew what was going on, even if the terminology wasn't 100%.

Question asked and answered, don't need any more input.

Thanks for coming by, though.