Horizons Bi-Weave shield generator.

[Philip Foster]

I fitted a C5 Bi-Weave shield generator to my Vulture and went to test it out.

I took on an Elite Anaconda and got his shields down completely. I took some good hits, he got me down to one ring so I backed off to recharge, this was the test I wanted to do. I wanted to see how fast the bi-weaves could recharge.

I had 4 pips to systems, no SCBs and no shield boosters. Anyway the Anaconda got his shields back up to full health from zero before I could add a second ring to mine.

Am I expecting a bit too much of these new shields? Maybe the Connie driver had done some synthesising?

Any ideas?

Cheers.

Phil F.

 

[ayures]

I think they just recover from being knocked out faster, not general recharge rate.

 

[IceFire122]

Generation of Bi-Weave vs. Prismatic/Standard ist 1,5 MJ/s vs. 1,0 MJ/s. Hence, they charge 50% faster.

However, shields down on all shields now triples? regeneration rate until capacitor runs empty or shield is up again.

Therefore: Regeneration rate on dropped shields is always the highest. With active shields Bi-Weave give that important 50%.

 

[Darth-Simba]

Where do you get the Bi-Weave shields?

 

[Tuub t Tute]

Is that a weave?...

 

[IceFire122]

Where do you get the Bi-Weave shields?

I don't know for sure, as I bought mine in Shinrarta Dezra.
The should be available on high tech worlds.

 

[Ydiss]

Bw shields are definitely faster. I can't really speak for the scenario you describe though, as it's a touch anecdotal. But a FAS with Bw shields that have no boosters shouldn't take longer to get a single line compared to an Anaconda fully regenerating from collapsed.

 

[Colonel Kenney]

Yeah that only boost recovery of shields when they are down... which is important.. I can't stand being out of a fight for long.

 

[psylim]

They regenerate 50% faster while still up. It is likely the Anaconda used an SCB while you were running away to recharge your shields.

 

[Kamiyoda]

They regenerate 50% faster while still up. It is likely the Anaconda used an SCB while you were running away to recharge your shields.

Almost 4 years later...

 

[Lightspeed]

They regenerate 50% faster while still up. It is likely the Anaconda used an SCB while you were running away to recharge your shields.

How do you manage to reply to a thread that is so old?

 

[Rick6549]

I think they just recover from being knocked out faster, not general recharge rate.

No they recharge both much faster. The vulture has a high shield capacity and a small generator. Larger generators rechrage faster.


Edit: why did you necro a 5 year old thread

 

[HAMM3R]

Edit: why did you necro a 5 year old thread

 

[IndigoWyrd]

How do you manage to reply to a thread that is so old?

With a Ouiji board and some skillful thread necomancy.

 

[C64Fan]

How do you manage to reply to a thread that is so old?

And didn’t even read the short thread as the answer was given in post 3.

 

[Bigmaec]

That's it. We definitely need a necro threads thread.

 

[Nasc]

Is that a weave?...

Just got my shields did

 

[S~P]

I'm guessing his shields are recharged by now, it's been 5 years.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Excellent necro. To beat this someone's almost going to have to find a post about First Encounters.

There might been one of two little tweaks to the game which just may have affected how NPC shields work since the OP.

 

[kiario]

Wonder why he is digging up these old threads..... on purpose. more than 1 now