No system shield for you

[rdouglass]

IMO the shield thing is not a big deal, but it may be for others. For game balance, there should be a defence for EVERY offense - that ol' Rock-Paper-Scissors thing.....

[rdouglass]

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Originally posted by PvK:
I bet it will become a bigger deal to you if you ever play a multi-player game to that point. There comes a point where this becomes a very important issue. Of course, you can also do the SE3 methods of mining and defending suns, but still... it's lame to spend heaps of time and resources building a facility that doesn't work due to a bug.

PvK

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I do agree. That's why I said there needs to be game balance. For every offense, there needs to be a counter. In fact, IMO there should be a component you could put on a space station as an option to the facility, maybe just in a more restrictive capacity. ALthough I personally don't use the system-wide weapons, I would still plan to defend against them in a multi-player game. At this point against the AI, system shields seem useless.

Even more useless if they don't work....this is one that needs to be fixed for multi-player games. However, against the AI, I don't bother....its just my personal preference...

[Droplede]

Hey, all. Was able to duplicate the system shield failure in an unmodded test, and sent the savegame on to Aaron. In his typically professional fashion, he got right back to me and said he'd check it out. Man, I love this company.

An extra for those interested: I also tried assigning the Stop Nebulae Creator, Stop Black Hole Creator and the as-yet unimplemented Stop Star Destroyer ability to other facilities to see if they'd work. They didn't. Bummer. I'd had high hopes for the Stop Star Destroyer ability, which I wanted to tack on to the System Shield facility 'cause it seems a an appropriate addition, especially given the huge cost of the facility.