On 2012-06-01 17:54, Fattierob wrote:

Thrust: 6 + (.25 * level)

On 2012-06-01 21:50, Fatal Devil Dog wrote:

Can you expain what the .25*Level means im not sure if i get it

also Skirmish show a higher resist to energy and reactive to Kinetic
am i understanding correct that Reactive shields are suited more for kinetic based projectiles and Skirmish to Energy

On 2012-06-01 21:56, Fattierob wrote:

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On 2012-06-01 21:50, Fatal Devil Dog wrote: Can you expain what the .25*Level means im not sure if i get it

Level is the gadget level, which is tied to the hull level. Scouts are Level 2, Frigates are 3, Destroyers 4, Cruisers 5, Dreads 6, Assault Dreads 7, Stations 10.

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also Skirmish show a higher resist to energy and reactive to Kinetic am i understanding correct that Reactive shields are suited more for kinetic based projectiles and Skirmish to Energy

I guess the term "resist" is incorrect. It's more like "percentage of damage done". ie: Kinetic Resist of 75% means that it would deal 75% of the damage to the armor it should deal.

On 2012-06-01 21:21, Fattierob wrote:

The issue with shields is, say I give the Aux Gen a repair rate of 200 hit points per second. Now say you have three generators on your ship, and you make them all aux shields. That's 600 DPS you're negating every second, essentially. Then you add on other shields regeneration rate and you start negating ridiculous amounts of damage very very quickly. If I made aux gens repair rate too low, it'd hamper recovery time and usefulness overall.

This doesn't really happen with armor because the repair rates aren't as high.

On 2012-06-01 22:05, Talien wrote:

If you swap all your reactors for aux shields you're going to have very, very poor energy generation since all you'd have providing power is your engines. Sure your aux shields may be regenerating but once your energy pool runs dry (this will happen rather quickly) your other shields won't unless you slow down. And then there's weapons to consider as well, if you're firing and recharging shields you're going to have to slow down further to generate enough power to keep up with that, and a slow moving ICC ship is a dead ICC ship.

I suppose it might work out for Stations since they generally don't move during coanyway, but given how crappy they currently are in the survivability department would thatmbat be such a bad thing?

On 2012-06-01 22:05, Talien wrote:

. I'm worried about stations having really really high regen with these .... stations don't move too much so they can have their high energy regeneration and soak up damage a lot.

On 2012-06-01 22:11, Fattierob wrote:
The issue is that aux shields don't drain energy while recharging (right now). I could make them drain energy, but you're already giving up *so much* energy regen for these devices ... It's just hard to balance in general. I'm worried about stations having really really high regen with these .... stations don't move too much so they can have their high energy regeneration and soak up damage a lot.

Only way to tell is by testing, I guess. But thank you for these posts, it's good to clarify what i'm thinking and what other players think

On 2012-06-02 04:26, Gesellschaft wrote:
What is the logic behind K'Luth armour's reduction in regeneration, and ICC Reactive Shield seemingly being worse off in all situations due to its poor resist rate?

EDIT: Also, K'Luth AME are strictly better than human AFE. I take it this means humans still are not as adept at flying speedily?