A question about Shields

[Drake]

Never seen it stated or implied by anyone with any real authority that mounting a Transport shield on a freighter-class ship (such as the Camera or Turanic) makes that ship a transport. Fact is, those freighters couldn't even handle hostile NPCs if they didn't have the really good shields.

It has been stated many times that mounting a Gunboat shield on a transport (such as a Liner) makes that ship a gunboat. Again, this has never been stated or even implied (as far as I've seen) by anyone with any real authority. Of course, it's a bit of a moot point since there aren't going to be any transports that can mount Gunboat shields in the next version. I believe there are still freighters than can mount Transport shields, which seems to imply that doing such is acceptable.