Shields on capital ship

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Just as a little note so people can at least keep the discussion based on facts and not their personal interpretation of how a blue bar on their screen refills:

Pre-5.0 Heavy Battleship Shield, corrected for armor removal (divided by 2.5):

Capacity: 260000
Recharge: 2600

5.0 Heavy Battleship Shield:

Capacity: 624000 (+140%)
Recharge: 3900 (+50%)

This is after cap shields were nerfed in one of the post-5.0 hotfixes, so the live numbers. The reason these evidently massive shield buffs are interpreted as a nerf by some people is because proportionally capacity got a larger increase so the bar moves slower as your shield recharges. That is literally it.

Battleships aren't done. Changes are planned for them that require time. Reducing the scaling of their mass from light to heavy battleships might serve as a short term improvement. Their secondaries also will need review for "5.1" so that'll also inevitably be done.

Oh, and these buffed shields are also of course further warping players' perception of things like powercores as you now have to spend much more of your core fighting a faster-regenerating, much stronger shield.

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