Ships Chaff vs. Shild Booster

[Basaltfeuer]

I have the impression that the chafflauncher on my python isnt worth it ... maybe the python is too big to gain advantage of the chaff ...

What are you thoughts? Should i swap it for another shild booster? (I dont do smuggling btw, so beeing scanned is not a problem).

 

[#43734]

I´m thinking about that too.
A little sample calculation (source): one A0 Booster gives a python +80 MJ shield strenght. A vulture with 2 C3G pulse makes around 40 MJ/s shield damage (0 pips in sys). So it needs a 2 sec burst or a 4 sec burst with 4 pips to sys to completely negate the additional shield strenght. A chaff launcher allows you to tank gimballed and turreted weapons for 10 sec by avoiding most of the incomming damage. Atmo I use a chaff launcher when fighting strong opponents i.e. CZ´s, strong USS or when being in danger getting attacked by players.

Edit:
The 'missed' 80 MJ shield strenght (when chaff is equipped) can be compensate with SCB´s many times over - one of the Pythons huge advantages!

 

[GammaZ]

Chaff is very, very usefull, but more on smaller ships than on a python. You will still be hit a lot because of ship size. But it is still worth it IMO, at least it will help to protect subsystems if your shield is down.