PPB Balance Issue, Follow-up poll.

[Suicide Junkie]

Re: Shield regenerators.

I would like them to be strengthened, but also know this:

If your ship can be expected to survive for 7 rounds after it is first hit, then adding shield regenerators is more effective than adding more shields...

Now, in large fleet battles, seven turns is an eternity.
In one-on-one combat, seven turns is reasonable.

If you have lots of racial bonuses for defense, and maxxed out ECM, experience, are fighting in a sensor-disrupting storm, etc, you can get amazing survival times.

If you are playing with tactical combat, seven turns is easy to achieve, especially with fleets.
(Anyone who gets hit retreats for a bit, then comes back once they're charged up)