SERVER ADMIN NOTICE: Mounting BS Shields

[f2k]

I agree completely with Jamez. Would you please make your mind up? Is the gunboat a capital ship or not?
It may not mount battleship shields (even though it has the mount for it), it cant mount heavy weaponry (as you point out in this thread), and its not agile enough to avoid getting hit.


Wolfpack, in principle I agree with you gunboats should not use battleship shields. But how else is it supposed to survive? It handles no better than a cruiser, yet it has half the protection and firepower
Frankly, this is getting ridiculous. The game says that I can mount a lvl 10 shield on my gunboat so why should I not? Especially considering the truly abysmal handling it now has. Also consider that all fighters and capital ships have been vastly upgunned (except the gunboat whos not allowed to play with the big guys), so you need a big shield. The standard Gunboat and Train shields can be stripped away in a matter of seconds with standard weapons, and even less with some of the new weapons.
Ask yourself: why on earth would anyone pay 60+ millions for a shield? The answer is simple: because they are sorely needed. Some ships simply have neither toughness, nor the agility, to survive an encounter with pirates


Also, Im rather curious: what happened to get you so upset?

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