Re: A poll on three components
 

I believe Arkcon is correct.

Re: A poll on three components
 

Actually that is the case in Gold as well. It was fixed in Version 1.81 and released in the 1.84 patch. So pre-gold and also gold Version 1.60 up to 1.80 a destroyed MC does not protect against the AS.

Re: A poll on three components
 

1. no always use MC/B/LS/CC on ships at or above 800kt
2. No. Rather Place Armor there as your ship gets scanned as soon as you hear " Round 1 Fight"
3. only if crystaline http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: A poll on three components
 

Yehabut...

Who went Gold and hasn't kept up with patches. I mean. Seriously. Why whould you do that?

Re: A poll on three components
 

Only on the very biggest ships. Suicide Junkie worked out the numbers a while ago, if the ship survives 7 combat turns, then its better off with a shield regenerator, than one more shield generator.

I've seen my heavy carriers and planet bombarding baseships, for example, live long enough to benefit from the shield regenerator.

Re: A poll on three components
 

I didn't say anyone does that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif I am sure that everyone that has Gold has kept up with the patches just fine. I was just pointing out another fact regarding that issue. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: A poll on three components
 

You would be surprised... A lot of people either never bother looking for game patches, or are even afraid of installing them...

Re: A poll on three components
 

It should be noted that the math is based on ">7" turns of taking damage, not just ">7" turns. They do not generate shield points when shields are at maxumum. And there are some caveats.

The ">7" comes from the fact that in >7 turns, the shield regenerator creates >7 x 25 or >275 (or effectively 300) shield points. However, even if your ship Lasts >7 turns, if you get all your shields depleted before turn 7 and some of your shield regenerators or shield generators get destroyed, this does not work.

Clear as mud?

Slick.

Re: A poll on three components
 

The problem with shield regenerators is that weapons are too powerful.

In SE3 the damage/kt ratios were about half what they are in SE4, compared with shields and regen.

In SE3, regenerators were actually useful because ships did survive long enough.
Not only did weapons do about half the damage (relative to shields), but enemies were forced to divide their firepower a bit, since they couldn't change targets once the shooting started. (If any ships were told to shoot at a ship that subsequently died, they couldn't pick a new target until the next round)

Re: A poll on three components
 

Yeah, but there's the case of a carrier, that gets whomped at a warp point, then runs away launching fighters, will get it's seven turns to recharge, and be ready when ships are free to chase after it.

Likewise, the shields regenerate during the "missile dance" a heavily shielded ship does over a planet. More so for bbq, I think, because pre-Gold does the missile dance worse, do I recall correct?