Apparently, system-wide abilities will work if modded into components.
How about having only 10 or 20 shield points directly generated by each shield generator component. For a ship to have more shields than that, it must be supported by a ship with a "Shield transmitter" component, which uses the "Energy Transmission Lens" ability to add shield points to every friendly ship in the system.
Your mod is also starting to sound a little like my "Space is Big" suggstion. Zip down to the long post I made on
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/For.../002664-4.html
Can't wait to play it...
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