Suggestion #283 / Shields

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Long time ago i noticed that the elite npcs (for instance battleship fighter escort) have 14k elite shields.

I wonder why players can't buy or at least loot them. Wouldn't it be nice to have a certain variety in VHF shields?

All we have atm for VHF is the 11k in different 3 flavors. Even Transports can choose between 3 Types.
They have to decide which shield to install, depending on which turrets they're using.

Adding the 14k with a higher power drain and slower reload:

Yay or Nay?

Vote, discuss

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[jxie93]

All shields, except from transports', have negligible drain. Transport shields are special cases in terms of shield balancing. Shield drain was applied to transports because the dev team thought it'd be realistic to make them paper armoured cash cows with no means of defending themselves.

If you were able to buy a 14000 VHF shield, then everyone will just use that instead. I don't mind a little diversity in shields but this would just make VHFs even more overpowered and further increase the gap between VHFs and HFs. So unless you want to apply freighter level shield diversity in terms of drain, regeneration and capacity to balance every single class - I suggest you leave the current VHF shields alone.

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[Torch Rose]

Fighters are OP enough as it is, no.

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[Stefz]

So unless you want to apply freighter level shield diversity in terms of drain, regeneration and capacity to balance every single class - I suggest you leave the current VHF shields alone.

This.

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[Zynth]

VHFs are overpowered. If you want, buff the LF shields, I don't mind.
Anyways, we don't want more powerful stuff. The more powerful stuff we have here, the more trouble we would have in balancing them. Just leave it at status quo, they are fine that way.

Shield drain was applied to transports because the dev team thought it'd be realistic to make them paper armoured cash cows with no means of defending themselves.

Cap 8 Shire.

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[Lennox]

Hmm....no.

Why buffing an already overpowered shipline? I don't see the reason why something like this should be done. Like mentioned would every VHF pilot use these better shields instead of the older ones and would make them even more OP. An increasing of shield capacity would mean that VHF's can eat much more fire that would increase the duration of the fights and decrease the chance of other, non-VHF's to make it against them.

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Thanks for all the comments so far.
Your concerns about balancing problems are justified as one of the main advantages of the discovery mod is adding interesting features without overpowering ships, guns and stuff...
However my suggestion never was meant to be a buff for the VHF.

In order to keep stability and to prevent players from just buying the 14k shield, it would be necessary to adjust it's stats to have assets and drawbacks compared to the 11k shield.

-Drop the regen rate.
-Longer downtime.
-Higher energy drain.

(-Make it lootable only.)

The point is to have an real option regarding shield choice, depending on your fight style.

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[Zynth]

(-Make it lootable only.)

I don't want a codename market for codename shields. We already have enough CSVs code camping near wrecks.

However, somebody might like the idea of codename-other stuff.

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Originally, I meant making it lootable from elite-npcs, not from wrecks.
(Sorry mr. Cody)

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