[Suicide Junkie]

Heck yeah.

How do you think ships get 1000 shield points as they come to wipe out your defenseless fleets.

Emmisive Armor negates damage less than X points.
I really think it should be changed to negate the FIRST X points of damage. As it is, its a useless ability.

Shields add. If you look in the design window, there is a box near the top middle that totals your supplies, movement, total cost, shields & stuff. Put a couple of generator Vs on, and you quickly get to 1000+ shields.

Unless you're fighting phased polaron beam ships, use shields.

Shields provide up to 8 hitpoints per KT
Armor provides up to 4

As it is now, armor is worthless compared to shields. In my mod I boosted the strength of armor 3x, so by lev 9 in armor, you get 10 hitpoints per KT.
That is 25% greater than shields to compensate for the fact that armor must be repaired after battle, while shields recharge instantly.


As for mines:
Shields are energy forcefields, and probably are very expensive to run. Battle Lasts for only a few minutes, so the shields don't cost supplies.
In strategic movement, you're flying around for 5 weeks. Keeping your shields up for 5 weeks is gonna leave you with no supplies. So, shields are down while moving on the map. You hit the mines while your shields are still down.

Thats how I see it, anyways.