1. In my battles, I noticed one strange issue with the shields.
If I am hitting the enemies with shield, initially they have it, allright, and I need to breach it to reach the hull.
But after one shield breached, something strange happens sometimes: all shields goes offline after some amount of damages. And no, looking on this ship stats, it still have "shields" not destroyed (only damaged, maybe, but not always). And sometimes this shields goes online on the next round!
My guess is that damaging shields disables them temporarily. And destroyed power generator is the source of "intact, but not working shield" case. Am I right?
2. Most of my bigger ships have stealth+shields equipped. And usually it's stealth initially, then shields activates itself after the first shot.
But some (identical) ships never have stealth - they starts the battles with the shields activated right away. Usually it can be fixed with manually activating stealth and waiting for it to work. (But I have time for that only closer to the end of the battle, and not always).
My guess is that it's the ships that had stealth disabled at some point - because of damaged, refitted or disabled manually. So unlike "standard" disabling because of fire, it's "permanent" disabling, that must be removed manually. But I cannot see this difference with the naked eye.
Question is: can you fix it, disabling "permanent offline" altogether? Or, as alternative, make different "offline" messages for such cases? (Like, "offline" for the temporary case and "disabled" for the permanent, for example?)
3. In one of my boarding attempts I had strange border case. It goes like that:
3.1. I am trying to board shielded ship. "No shield breach found" message appeared. Ok.
3.2. I am destroying shield with the one of my ships. No hull damages. "No shield breach". Oh?!
3.3. I am hitting the ship once more with scout, damaging it for 5-6 damages (no shield reaction was visible). Now I can board!
Question is: what is the reason of it? Some very weak (so practically invisible) shield was active, that slightly affected my shot, unnoticed? Or simply non-breached hull worked against me?
Three Shield questions
Re: Three Shield questions
1. Since Shields require power, if power generators are damaged/destroyed it can cause all of them to go offline. I'm assuming that's what happened in the example you brought up. You should be able to see it if you scan the ship when it happens or in battle log.
2. If a device is disabled/offline manually then it will need to be enabled manually. But if it's offline automatically (due to not enough power or damaged system) then it should come back online (once there is enough power/repaired). It may be possible to also design a ship with too little power to keep Stealth on always although this is pretty unlikely. If you can't figure out why I can take a look at your saved game (provide the ship name).
3. I don't know, shield regenerated between shots? It's hard to know without seeing it.
2. If a device is disabled/offline manually then it will need to be enabled manually. But if it's offline automatically (due to not enough power or damaged system) then it should come back online (once there is enough power/repaired). It may be possible to also design a ship with too little power to keep Stealth on always although this is pretty unlikely. If you can't figure out why I can take a look at your saved game (provide the ship name).
3. I don't know, shield regenerated between shots? It's hard to know without seeing it.
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Re: Three Shield questions
Aha, so I am right here. Thank you for the answer.Zaimat wrote:1. Since Shields require power, if power generators are damaged/destroyed it can cause all of them to go offline. I'm assuming that's what happened in the example you brought up. You should be able to see it if you scan the ship when it happens or in battle log.
Well, it's not needed (but thank you!), I wanted only to found source of it. Manual disabling, eh? Ok... and I believe, it's possible that I disabled stealth manually each time, yes. Still question remains: can you make distinct messages for "manual" and "automatic" disabling, please?2. If a device is disabled/offline manually then it will need to be enabled manually. But if it's offline automatically (due to not enough power or damaged system) then it should come back online (once there is enough power/repaired). It may be possible to also design a ship with too little power to keep Stealth on always although this is pretty unlikely. If you can't figure out why I can take a look at your saved game (provide the ship name).
Well, nevermind then. I believe, it's quite rare, so I'll hardly will repeat it... and it's not very important, even if it is the problem here.3. I don't know, shield regenerated between shots? It's hard to know without seeing it.