Massive planetary shields

[Suicide Junkie]

Has anybody else noticed how badly planetary shields suck?

I modded mine to have 10K hitpoints, and they still got trashed quickly.

I had an enemy force of 4 LCs, 2 of which were cripples, having organic tech lev 4, and they did 2K damage in three turns before I had my massive defence fleet finish them off.

So, I added two more levels, giving 50K, & 75K.

BTW, do planetary shields block phased weapons normally?

[Will]

Don't even bother with the Planetary Shield Gen... You can defend the planet much more effectively if you put one or two shields on your weapon platforms

[Aussie Gamer]

Don't forget that they are NORMAL shields, no good against phased weapons!!!

[Suicide Junkie]

I know that the planetary shields are worthless junk right now.
What I'm trying to do here is to make the planetary shields worthwhile.

So, what I did, was boost the PS I to 10K shields, and add a PS II, @ 50K shields, and a PS III, which has 75,000 phased shields.

Those high level shields are budget busters, though, as 500,000 minerals will take decades to build. What you'll have to do is build and upgrade a PS I in order to finish in a reasonable abount of time

The 10K shield will withstand a moderate amount of punishment, and you can then devote the weapon platforms entirely to big weapons.
Also, all the shields have to be gone before even the first platform gets destroyed, so your firepower dosen't diminish.

Note: all those numbers are flexible ... I'll probably end up dropping the price of the higher level shields, and boosting the strength of the PS 1 (maybe double?).

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 09 April 2001).]

[Nitram Draw]

I also find that for the time and resources they aren't worth squat.
Is it possible to give the shields the ability to protect against both normal and phased weapons? If so it may make them more attractive with an increase in shield value too.

[Daynarr]

Well, I have made shields have 20000 points and they are worth the trouble. Of course, you will use them on large and important planets where they will protect your WP-s while they shoot the enemy. That way the large planets can hold very long time against very large fleets. Of course, the 2000 points of protection is way too low, so if you don't mod them they are worthless.

There is something even better - AI from TDM pack will use these shields as well (you are on even terms).