Devnull Mod- Hardened Shield Generator question

ExSentinel · #1 September 21st, 2005, 10:44 AM

My ships right now are primarily running phased shields and I was thinking of placing a hardened shield generator on my ships but I want to make sure that by placing the generator on the ship that the phase shields become "standard" shielding thereby making the ship defenseless against phased weapons.

The simulator indicates that the shielding will stand, but I wanted to make sure with others prior to placing the ships online in my PBW game.

Thanks for the help

Renegade 13 · #2 September 21st, 2005, 12:02 PM

If you place the hardened shield generators on your ship, unless they have phased shield ability, your ships will all have "standard" shields. If I remember correctly, hardened shields don't have the phased shield ability, so all your shields will not resist attacks from weapons such as Phased Polaron Beams.

Ragnarok-X · #3 September 21st, 2005, 12:13 PM

So does that mean that "shield generation" ability overwrites "phased shield generation" ? Really impressing, yet another un-fixed bug. Well at least i consider it a bug, though i guess someone could argue about calling it a feature

douglas · #4 September 21st, 2005, 12:33 PM

So long as you have any component intact that generates non-phased shields, all your shields are non-phased. If you have 10 phased shield generators and one non-phased, your shields are non-phased. If a phased weapon penetrates your non-phased shields and happens to destroy the non-phased shield generator, all of your remaining shield points will suddenly become phased.

Rasorow · #5 September 21st, 2005, 12:37 PM

OUCH---- didn't know that....

<calls order to shipyards to immediately remove all hardened shield generators from all ships>

Did I miss this as a game bug or Mod bug? Seems like it is a game bug....

Rasorow

Fyron · #6 September 21st, 2005, 01:10 PM

It isn't a bug. It is the result of having only one shield layer and having to make a design decision on what happens when using both types of shields. Combining phased and non-phased shielding has resulted in a non-phased shield layer since at least SE3.

Rasorow · #7 September 21st, 2005, 03:28 PM

Never paid that much attention to it.... cant remember ever using mixed shield types in any design other then Devnull mod. No reason too. I always tried to reach phased as quick as possible and only put phased on my ships.

Rasorow