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So, the shields for gunboats and transports provide the option of switching to a more powerful shield at the expensive of a significant drain on the ship's power core.

Similar options for other ship types would be interesting, as this would give players the ability to build themselves more towards dealing damage, or more towards surviving. It would also give players who use low-cost weapons or a lot of ammo weapons something else to do with their power core, particularly if they're using a ship with a very light arsenal compared to its power core.

Likewise, an even bigger transport shield, with back up to the old 100k capacity, with even more regen cost, might be interesting.

That's kind of a thing already, except for damage types...

...which falls a bit flat because everyone uses barrier for snubs, and for capital ships all cap guns deal direct damage anyway (including razors even I think).