Shield types on Discovery

[Boss]

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.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[The Pirate]

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.

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[mjolnir]

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...

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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.

[marauder]

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).

[mjolnir]

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...

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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.

[Armageddon]

I use gravitron as it has the best capacity.

[mjolnir]

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.

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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.

[tk9780]

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.

[Othman]

Heh, if you are confident enough, carry the other 2 types of shields in your cargo incase you need them in different occasions..

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[Qunitinius~Verginix]

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

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