[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Master Belisarius:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Shields were becomeing a bit out of vouge in the PBW games I have been playing lately. People don't bother because as soon as they put them on the other guy comes in with engine destroyers. Geoschmo

I think most the people (me included) doesn't bother to use shields, mostly because the PPB... and this weapon still was not fixed!

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But that's the point. With PBB's early and then Ionic weapons later there isn't even any reason to research shields. Now there is. Anything that makes people think more about their research and design is a good thing. This gives people choices. And as Alpha says they are still pretty useful as they aren't much less powerful than PPB's and they skip armor.

Will races that are heavily devoted to ionic weapons have to adapt? Yes, and they should anyway, but they shouldn't scrap the ionic weapons altogether. One weapon only is boring.

And I would be very careful trying to change the PPB's. I disagree they are too powerful. Maybe a little too easy to research, but that could be said about a lot of stuff in SEIV. They are kind of expensive, which helps balance them. And they aren't that much stronger than APB's and Meson BLasters.

Geoschmo

[ May 23, 2002, 23:23: Message edited by: geoschmo ]