New player struggling

[capnq]

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A ship enters a mine field and looses all engines.
Since it has lost all engines it can’t use any remaining shields.

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[ Edit to correct info that changed in Gold patch 1 ]Losing the engines won't take out the shields if the ship also has other supply storage. Shields are only active during combat; they don't protect the ship while it's "cruising" during movement, so they don't stop mines or damaging warp points.

The mines might take out the shield generator(s), though.

[ 11 April 2002: Message edited by: capnq ]

[ 13 April 2002: Message edited by: capnq ]