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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Joutsa, Finland
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Thats just... weird.

BTW, I noticed (even thought I had few beers) that that in those new pics the Starfury had shields.... (power sytem bars lower right corner)

Someone made a deal with the thirspace race?

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
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Non-mesh shields provide shockwave protection, but not weapons fire protection

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: The Cold Northland!
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Yeah...so you'll be able to survive exploding capital ships again (ever blow up a bomb in FS2 with no shields?).

Basically its a 10 point shield that has virtually no effect on cannon fire but since the shockwave multipliers on shields are usually 0.1 or 0.01 they don't get through.

Kazan's excellent idea

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Registered: Oct 2000
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Kazan's a Genius!

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Registered: Feb 2001
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hmmm when you say non mesh does that mean you dont see it when you get hit?

and if you dont see it think of it as a structural inegrity feild

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: The Cold Northland!
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Thats exactly what it is.

If there is no shield mesh attached to an object, you can still add a shield to it table side. Give it a try. You can make a Fenris survive over twice the number of hits that it could take without shields since they dampen the impact effect.

There is no shield flare involved.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: scotland
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cap ship shields are stable without the mesh???

i did thinkg about making a shielded cap ship for my campaign and it seems to run on on my puter put everyone says it can be a disater

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Joutsa, Finland
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So you only add shields in to the tables....?
That's clever

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Registered: Feb 2001
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Yea! good idea Kazan!!!

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