A question about Shields

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I run a transport shield on my Camara... Neutral ID'd freighter. I ran a transport shield on my Turanic Freighter configured as a convoy raider. Both of these configs I ran for quite a while and never had a complaint from anyone that I was turning my Freighters into Transports by doing so.

Edit: Fact of the matter is, freighter shields suck. If you want to RP as a small freighter running drugs or guns or something illicit, you look for a freighter that can use a Transport shield. If freighter shields are changed so that they scale up nicely (top freghter shield should be close to the low end transport shield IMO), then it becomes reasonable to expect people to use Freighter shields. With a (unspoken?) rule like "equipping a transport shield means you are now a transport" you are forced to choose either RP or functionality, and that isn't a good thing for the mod or the players.

In addition, the turanic raiders freighter with a transport shield can barely be used to hijack players in trade ships, the only thing keeping it in the fight is that shield. On the other hand the Kushan freighter wears at most a freighter shield. This results in a ship too fragile for the task, even though it is well gunned and maneuverable.

Some simple changes like making freighter shields better at the high end, improving the Camara's turn rate, and adding cruise disruptors to the Turanic and Kushan freighters would go a long way toward improving the usefulness of these ships as more than RP also-rans. Players constantly must make RP vs Functionality decisions on their ships, would be nice to improve functionality rather than make rules to further marginalize border-line useful ships.

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