[Suicide Junkie]

Nobody gets shields.
At least shields as SE4 sees shields.
Only the thirdspace aliens had shields, and they're not here.

However, the SE4 shield effects will be a very common occurance during combat. Shipsets should make a shields.bmp that looks like a non-damaging hit to armor.
Electric sparks, or shadow-style energy dissipation, or something similar.

The ancient races can get powerful crystalline and organic armor effects, though.
I think the shadows should maybe get some 100% absorbing armor plates, either limited in number per ship, or having reduced hp/kt. They would be OA regenerated each combat turn.

That way they can withstand single hits without a problem, but combined fire from many ships during a single combat round can punch through.

[ June 20, 2002, 01:39: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]