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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie.:
Have you considered making phased shields weaker than normal shields, but available at roughly the same tech level?

If phased weapons were set to be 60% of the strength of normal weapons, and you had the choice between a phased shield, and a normal shield that was 50% stronger, which would you choose?

You can keep both types of shields useful, while phased weapons become support rather than main-guns.

I voted for "reduce damage" as it seemed to me the simpler way of balancing PPB, but now I definitely support SJ. proposal : it has the big advantage of giving a new choice/trade-off to players, and will end the "PPB rules all" of AI designs