On 2013-05-20 18:23, Talien wrote:
Turning ICC shields into a rotateable equivalent of UGTO armor was a bad idea, and I'd said that from the start. It was great that Frob wanted to do something with shields but that just wasn't a good way to go about it, the only thing that was really needed was a bit more HP for Reactives, everything else was fine as it was.

The way they are now is a jumbled mess. We have Active with the highest HP but no resistances, the highest signature, and the highest energy use.

Reactives have lower HP with a resistance to energy and weakness to kinetic, the lowest energy use, and lowest signature.

And Skirmish have HP on par with Reactives with weakness to energy and resistance to kinetic, but higher power use and higher signature. If Reactives and Skirmish are two sides of the same coin like Ablative and Reflective armor are for UGTO, they should have the same stats with the weakness/resistance flipped but that is not the case.

On 2013-05-20 18:56, PsyCrow wrote:
tbh it could be simplified with two shield types, a tough one with more hp and slower regen, and a weak one with significantly higher regen.
I think this is how it was before? The old reactive shields seemed to have an odd weakness to some weapon type, I really didn't understand that.

On 2013-05-20 22:22, Talien wrote:

Quote: On 2013-05-20 18:56, PsyCrow wrote: tbh it could be simplified with two shield types, a tough one with more hp and slower regen, and a weak one with significantly higher regen. I think this is how it was before? The old reactive shields seemed to have an odd weakness to some weapon type, I really didn't understand that.

Previously Actives had 15% global resists with higher HP, and reactives had 25% resists to almost everything but had low HP and a weakness to EMP and ELF. The global damage resistance was balanced out by not being able to repair them in combat like armor, it was a system that already was working and just needed a few minor tweaks instead of a total overhaul.

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On 2013-05-20 22:25, PsyCrow wrote:
that seems very counter-intuitive for a lower hp shield to have higher damage resistances.

Wouldn't it have been easier to give the reactive shields the same hp as actives, but with a severe weakness to ELF and EMP?

On 2013-05-22 13:53, Orkan ORP wrote:
Regarding the Killboard...

I think it goes to show that ICC have had many veteran and promising members of their Admiralty away on shore leave on Exathra, hey we're all human right? Sometimes we just gotta kick back : )

Regarding Pulse Shield...

Yes, this definitely needs some form of improvement. Presently we often use it like a victory flare rather than where it should be and that is in combat!

Regarding rotational shields...

I like these the way they are, Many of our vessels lack armour in key places and the ability to rotate these shields to cover our vulnerable areas is vital for survival. This 'micromanagement' is how it should be - remember X-Wing n Tie Fighter series? - you know that!

Skirmish, Active and Reactive Shields

These suffer from poor 'descriptions' rather than poor design. Presently Shields and other gadgets in game are not very well explained. Due to version changes over time it is not easy to understand these and how to best use them especially for the new players.

This is also what E-war suffers from, a lack of clear description, explanation and practical advice on what the exact effects of various gadgets are upon all ship systems as well as the relationships between energy, signature and so on.