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Shield types on Discovery - Boss - 04-01-2008
I primarily use whatever I see first. There's a list of the available shield types, and whatever I see first as having the most capacity that I can buy/mount goes on my ship.
Shield types on Discovery - The Pirate - 04-01-2008
Well i tend too Stick too positron for some reason
I find them equally effective against all weapons (must be a bug) because i only take Half of the damage i should when i mount them...
Regards Pirate.
Shield types on Discovery - mjolnir - 04-01-2008
Shieldbusters will eat you alive.... and now everyone and his granny use some.
+20% of damage on imp. debil means it does 750 damage.
Tizona 960.
Colada 1250!!!
That's why positron are the least used shields around...
Shield types on Discovery - marauder - 04-01-2008
Ok, here goes a rough list of factions and the shield types they use (its from memory so it wont be perfect):-
Graviton:
LN,
LPI,
Company transports and escorts based in liberty and kusari,
KNF,
KSP,
GMG,
Kusari pirate groups (i think..)
Positron:
Britonia,
Outcasts,
Corsairs,
IMG,
Company transports and escorts based in bretonia,
Molecular:
RM,
RFP,
All rheinland pirate groups (pretty sure they all do..),
BHG,
Zoners,
Junkers,
Company transports and escorts based in rheinland,
Thats all the ones I know of/remember. I don't know about the Order and I'm not 100% sure that all pirate groups in a house use the same shield. However, the company transports, trains escorts etc use the same shield type as the house they work in/are base out of.
Personally, I've always tried to use the same sheild type as the npcs of the faction I'm in. eg: outcast/corsair character will always have a positron shield. A rheinland character will have a molecular shield. My KNF has a graviton shield, because the npcs do, my [TAZ] character has a molecular shield because thats what the zoners use.
But I find it's very rare to find anyone else going that far (based on people I've encountered and scanned ingame).
Shield types on Discovery - mjolnir - 04-01-2008
I switch shields like socks :)
Because having graviton against a ship with 7 Krakens means you are without shield constantly... which in vanilla ship is not the wisest thing to do.
Having a Molecular against 7 Lugers or 7 Wyrms is the same...
Shield types on Discovery - Armageddon - 04-01-2008
I use gravitron as it has the best capacity.
Shield types on Discovery - mjolnir - 04-01-2008
' Wrote:I use gravitron as it has the best capacity.
All lvl 10 HF player buyable shields have same capacity!!!!
Npc shields have 14k... player ones 11k.
Shield types on Discovery - tk9780 - 04-05-2008
I:cool: try and go armed with at least one Gun with a high hit rate for each shield type.
Trouble is most desent Guns just eat up power, so knowing which guns I could turn off would be a great help.
:( So I just wish each shield type when hit would flash a different colour or make a different sound.
Shield types on Discovery - Othman - 04-05-2008
Heh, if you are confident enough, carry the other 2 types of shields in your cargo incase you need them in different occasions..
Shield types on Discovery - Qunitinius~Verginix - 04-06-2008
I do what marauder does. The NPC's use certain types of shields, so if my char is a member of that NPC faction, I get what shield is within my char's RP.
Verg