Question about the surround bonus

[Soapyfrog]

So being surrounded does not affect protection (which makes sense since prot is raw armour), not even to the extent of the shield being ignored or something along those lines?

Might be a nice additon, i.e. if getting attacked from behind any shield protection should surely have a chance of being ignored, etc?

Apart from that I cant think that there should be any prot penalty for being surrounded, I suppose there are always AP and AN attacks to deal with high prot whereas as high defence has no counter except surround?