phased shields?

[leo1434]

Hey everybody:

As we are talking about armor, engine damaging weapons, shields and so on...

Do any of you know about the Ionic Shield Generator (used in Proportions)?
How does it works? It don´t seem to have any special ability. Is only like putting a big chunk of armor inside a ship and wait that the engine damaging weapon hits it instead of an engine?

In Last game I had to combat against a group of 100 sats which were made of: 1 Computer core, 1 Depleted U Cannon and two Ionic Shield Generators (each of those had 40 kT tonnage and 450 kT structure) very tough to wipeout, to say the least.

Altough the are designed for "ship only" the AI used them, I think AI picks the best comp in each Category (armor in this case) wichever it is for its designs and just use them.

Any knowledge about this topic??

Thanks!!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, that and i'm not mr. micromanegement. unless i have to.

[Fyron]

The Ionic Shield Generator is an Engine with no appreciable movement generation. So, it takes an engine slot and is hit by engine damaging weapons, but doesn't move the ship any faster. A nice tradeoff, if you ask me.

They should be set up to be only available on ships though, cause they make no sense elsewhere.

[ April 17, 2003, 08:50: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i think the engine thing is just so they'll get hit by engine damaging weapons.

[Fyron]

Well that is what I said. But it does create a design choice because it lowers the engines you can have by 1. You can't go as fast when using an Ionic Shield on your ship. That is what I was talking about.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

oh.

[Phoenix-D]

They should be set up to be only available on ships though, cause they make no sense elsewhere."

Well, aside from tricking engine killers into firing at ships with no engines.

Phoenix-D