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June 2nd, 2007, 02:58 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
didn't they have to in se4?
what about ship's shields for boarding parties?
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June 2nd, 2007, 03:53 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
Troops can be landed on shielded planets in SE4 too.
Boarding parties cannot be used on a ship that has at least one shield point, IIRC in both games.
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June 2nd, 2007, 06:35 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
See, the thing is, the shield only stops high-velocity objects. And troops aren't high-velocity enough. After all, you wouldn't want them to explode in a fiery ball of flame because the brakes couldn't handle the velociity, would you?
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June 2nd, 2007, 06:46 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
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June 2nd, 2007, 08:19 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
narf poit chez BOOM said:
See, the thing is, the shield only stops high-velocity objects.
Right. See, no one complained when it happened like this in the Dune novels, or Star Wars Episode I, and now we all have to live with it. 
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June 2nd, 2007, 08:42 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
Well, you should have complained. I mean, it's too late now. It's in ur brain, stealin' ur nerons.
(I apologize profusely. I have seen waaaaaay too many cat posters)
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June 2nd, 2007, 09:48 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
Actually, the planetary shield around Coruscant in Star Wars prevents even low-velocity objects like ships. In one of the books, the shields are kept up full-time in order to defend against cloaked asteroids in decaying orbit.
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June 3rd, 2007, 03:56 AM
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Re: Planetary Shields
He was talking about Episode I, which featured no shielded Coruscant. Think gungans... In other SW movies, such as Episode V, shields are not penetrable by slow objects (like drop ships).
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