Ragnarok
2009-06-28 |  | Reflective shield idea |  |
Basic concept: If the shield mod is greater than 100%, then a portion of the energy would be reflected back to deal additional damage to the attacker.
So, lets say i have 100 energy directed at a ship with a 125% shield mod against energy. 25 energy would then be "shot back" at the ship for additional damage. If the mod was 300% then 300 energy would be reflected back.
Naturally if you have a shield mod that high, it would have to be balanced out by an extremely low shield mod in another category.
Just thinking outside the box a little. Please don`t just say that this is a bad idea if you don`t like it. Please say WHY you don`t like it.
But I have a sinking feeling that stephen is going to be required, which means it won`t be implemented even if everyone thought it was a great concept. :( |
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Arc
99+ day(s) ago | Didnt say it would happen. Lol. Just gave another way to look at it. And yes, the word stephen=death for most ideas around that involve change other than ship lists. :P |
Raistilin
99+ day(s) ago | Lol i don`t even want to begin thinking about the coding that would entail for stephen. So with that being said. - wouldn`t happen capn` . |
Arc
99+ day(s) ago | So make kinetic shield incompatable with it. As for increasing the energy and the law of conservation of energy, why not have it ABSORB the energy instead to divert extra power to weapons. Would be a good starbase shield i think. that way you get the extra damage, just in a different package |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | yea, you might have a point there about the conversion of energy law. =P
Also, I meant to put 200 energy reflected back (it was a typo)
But anyways, prolly no more than 100% energy damage reflected back if mod is 200% or something. If mod was at 200%, then all of the energy would be reflected back. If it was at 100%, it would simply be absorbed with no damage.
As for the missiles, maybe they`d just bounce off the shield back toward the attacker? o.0 |
Runnerman
99+ day(s) ago | and missles, sigh, if you shoot 100 missles how can a sheild make another 100 missles to shoot 200 back (200% sheild) |
Runnerman
99+ day(s) ago | imo a space game just is spacey enough without deflector (reflector) sheilds i like the idea but i belive the games prgramming only reconizes 100% (as seen with a ship called the facepalm... mara knows).
however if you want realism... a 300% sheild ie sending 3x the damage back would break the conservation of energy law |
