Remove Shield Inidcator for Shieldless Builds

[Duel]

Recently did a shieldless build and noticed the shield health guage pulsating at 0. Makes no sense. Kinda feels like if you bought an electric car and there's a permanent flashing light on the dash telling you you're out of gas.

 

[Marra Morgan]

Earlier on, your shield health didn't used to have any % indicator, just more or less blue rings. Shield-free people got on with their lives without the computer's passive aggressive jibes and guilt-trips on what we weren't doing our bit for the shield industry.
Of course, shield manufacturers and the multitudes of consumers they'd already made dependent on shields lobbied the ship manufacturers to install this new firmware that makes the shield indicator lose its shoes if you don't have one installed.
So here we are

 

[metatheurgist]

Well, you used to just get pulsing red rings. But even then I thought that was unnecessary if you didn't actually have a shield.

 

[Schmack]

I think it's fine, since drained shield gen and no shield gen are indistinguishable to a shield strength indicator. I also think it's good to let noobs know they are flying shieldless.

 

[Screemonster]

I'm surprised it didn't pitch a div/0 error trying to calculate the percentage remaining of a shield of strength zero

 

[metatheurgist]

Pretty sure I've seen NaN (not a number) a few times in the game.

A distinct difference between pulsing red (have shield but it is off/drained) and just dead grey (no shield at all) would be a better for warning noobs about the state of their defences imo. A clear difference makes one think "Hang on, something's changed". Assuming they are awake of course.

 

[Riverside]

This is what a build without shields is displayed in Legacy:

No pulsing that draws your eye to a problem that isn't actually a problem, just enough info to show that you have no shield. It works fine. The 0% indicator was a nice QoL update to live, that's not the problem.

 

[SlickPBW]

Honestly, with all the bugs that have been reported and not fixed, I would much prefer that FD work on bug fixes and content, then things like this that have such minimal impact to the game.

 

[Riverside]

Honestly, with all the bugs that have been reported and not fixed, I would much prefer that FD work on bug fixes and content, then things like this that have such minimal impact to the game.

You can report (& vote on) bugs here:

Issue Tracker

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I think is it reasonable to assume any proposal FDev consider would be prioritised along with any other work they have going on.

 

[bangermsuk]

yes, and F-DEV don't bother looking at that either, it another piece of useless tat from them. out of the bugs i've reported only 2 have ever got a look at. the rest have all expired.waste of time and effort filling in that form in. sorry to say, but other delevopers have this same system bug report are more active then these people.