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Originally posted by Droplede:
Hmmmm. This is distressing. In a test, I tried out nebula and black-hole creators in a system with a System Gravitational Shield Facility. Both worked on one of my own ships, despite the shield facility, duplicating my first error. So I transfered control of the ships to another player, with a war treaty between us, to try again, and the systems still blew up. Made no difference friend or foe.
I was running with the TDM ModPack in Version 1.35. I'll try to duplicate the experiment in the base 1.35 Version and in different types of system. I'll send MM my findings.
Has ANYBODY had a system shield facility work correctly? Please post.
I've never taken the opportunity to test it, although I've built a system shield facility...
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Originally posted by Droplede:
By the way: Tested tectonic bombs against planets with Planetary Gravitational Shield Facilities, too. The shields worked just fine. But in one case, they worked too well. Had a shield facility on the moon of a gas giant. Sent the tectonic bomb ship to the sector, told it to blow up the gas giant (not the shielded moon), and the shield still protected it. It seems you only need one per sector, regardless that the tectonic bomb dialog screen makes you select a specific planet in the sector.
[This message has been edited by Droplede (edited 06 June 2001).]
Well, didn't Star Wars: Return of the Jedi put the second Death Star's shield on a moon of Endor? Could be a similar idea (i.e., the Planetary Gravitational Shield can be projected on all planets/moons in a sector).