Military vs. Civilian ships

[Bandit LOAF]

The Victory's escorts are probably older than the Paradigm (actually, the Paradigm is fairly new -- the first one entered service in 2664...).

The last major battle with the Kilrathi in Gemini was in 2658 -- Confed is dug in too deeply for it to be worth launching a major attack on the sector.

 

[Wedge009]

Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
You do have to sell your old armour before you can upgrade to tungsten or isometal (G) (or downgrade, or whatever).

That's what I meant by scratching off the old armour!

 

[Dragon]

The shields being on side must be correct, I am looking at the back of my P box, there is a shoot of a cockpit were we can see the hull/shield indicator, its divided in four parts.

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

Nobody denies it

 

[redwolf]

What about upper and lower sections of the ship? Do shields wrap around these portions?

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

Yep, they do. At last I never got armor damage as long as my shields were up. I think the front/aft shields are two semi-spheres. One starting roughly at your nose and protecting everything from there, regardless if it is front-left, front-right, front-bottom or front-up, to the middle of you ship where it meets the semi-sphere from the aft shield.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

In most of the games, that's correct -- the shield generator generates to half-spheres, fore and aft of the ship. In Armada and Privateer, the shield generator generates four quarter-spheres, aft, fore, left and right.

 

[Wedge009]

Ugh, that's kinda hard to visualise. I've always thought of the shields as a 'bowl' for the fore and aft, and a 'C' or half a cylinder for the left and right. Of course, when there's only fore and aft, then it'd be two hemispheres.

 

[RFBurns]

The way the shields are generated in Privateer are probably the best way (four quarter-spheres). If you take a hit on the side, it doesnt affect the other 3 quarter spheres and you can draw from those quadrants to recharge the one that took a hit a bit faster than normal. (hitting Shift-S to turn up the shields will re-direct energy and recharge to the quadrant taking hits, thus making it recharge quicker). Im not too shure about Armada if this method works. Privateer 2 also generates 4 quarter spheres, but there isnt any way to increase or decrease the charge rate. Bummer!

RFBurns