Massive Waste of Planetary Space?

[Alneyan]

I believe it is indeed useless. What use is 5,000 non-phased shield points? PPB would disable this facility, and even regular weapons could destroy the shield fairly especially. (I won't even speak of the planetary bombs, these ones should destroy the shield in no time) The only use would be to protect your planets against a single raider, but that is a bit expensive for such a purpose. And it won't repel a bigger offensive.

[jimbob]

typical example of an imbalance easily rectified by moding

[Baron Munchausen]

This is the beauty of Space Empires. You can mod it yourself with little trouble because all the settings are in text files! Sure, set it to produce 25,000 shield points and reduce the cost by half or so. BTW, there is apparently no difference between the 'planetary shields' ability and regular shields, so you could make it produce phased shields, as well.

[Suicide Junkie]

P&N has six levels of planetary shield tech.
The first three give 20k, 50k and then 75k phased shields.

The other three are researchable without finding ruins, and are weaker Versions of the above.

[se5a]

well we could get aaron to make it more worthwhile in the next patch???

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
Also, if I have a planet on the edge of my empire, then I include a shield to make sure no one destroys my planet.

This shield does not protect against planet-killing weaponry.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by jimbob:
typical example of an imbalance easily rectified by moding

Absolutely. The Proportions mod makes every large city provide some shield points.

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