{"id":748,"date":"2010-06-29T18:05:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2010-06-29T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T18:05:31","slug":"shield-support-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/06\/29\/shield-support-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"Shield Support Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right, so here we have a brand new module I think I’ll just add to the game. I was thinking about shoe-horning it into the campaign, but that is a bit awkward to do. It’s the first module that affects a ship on your side that isn’t the owning ship. Its….. (drumroll)…<\/p>\n

The Shield Support Beam!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Or ‘Remote shield energy projector’ or whatever I finally call it…<\/p>\n

Basically it lets a frigate beam-over shield energy to reinforce a failing ship on a nearby friendly cruiser. It’s a frigate-only module, only working to reinforce cruisers, with a max range of 450. Crew use is\u00a0 8, power use is 18 (high!).<\/p>\n

screenshot (its the blue beam thing): I may well tart-up the graphics for it a bit more. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n

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The beam looks for nearby friendly ships whose shields are below 80%, and then triggers this beam which empties it’s ‘capacitor’ into the target ship, over a short burst of time. That then reinforces the target shield, back up to it’s normal strength. This is basically a way to temporarily gvie a nearby ship a really fast shield recharge, and is a defence againts those fleets that hurl 100 plasma or 100 missiles at your cruisers and crush them instantly.<\/p>\n

I’ve tested it lots, but obviously it remains to be seen how people use this. Obviously you could stick 3 frigates behind every cruiser, in formation and have super-reinforced shields, but that ties up 3 frigates that have to stick by their cruiser, and also chews up 3 sockets and a ton of power. It’s a weapon socket, so that matters. So far, I’ve found it handy to combat plasma spam, but not a totally killer-app.<\/p>\n

I’ve also set it to be an empire-only module, initially locked (but cheap to unlock). I like the idea of making any future modules race-specific, to give the races more flavour.<\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n

back to the campaign tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right, so here we have a brand new module I think I’ll just add to the game. I was thinking about shoe-horning it into the campaign, but that is a bit awkward to do. It’s the first module that affects a ship on your side that isn’t the owning ship. Its….. (drumroll)… The Shield Support<\/p>\n

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