Does shield recharge time need a buff?
- Thread starter Coccolino
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Let's step away from the same old french-hating bandwagon here, ok?
Exactly. Getting the best power distributor you can hold is very important, especially if you are trying to run shield boosters.
By my calculations 7A Shields should take between 96 and 180 seconds to recharge depending on the class and rating of Power Distributor you have. 7D Shields with two 0A boosters should take 178 seconds with a 5E Power Distributor or 95 seconds with a 6A Power Distributor.
If there other factors, than the rate of charge from systems, that would add to this, I'd like to know so I can calculate the sum correctly. Mike Evans care to comment...?
It definitely shouldn't work like that. Just an oversight on FD's part.
Yeah, I hope the devs fix that bug rather sooner than later, as then suddenly many more players would raise their voices for faster shield recharge and reboot speeds. As long as you're used to FSD'ing out and in to instantly recharge your shields, of course you don't notice these long times, but once you have to sit out several minutes at a distance from the action, waiting for your shields to replenish, it gets boring very very quickly.
I don't do the FSD trick, personally, because to me that feels like abusing a bug, and each time I wait outside a conflict zone, I feel like this:
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Many thanks for uploading this. This does suggest that there is something out of whack here, although not quite sure what. The only thing which I can see that's different from my testing (apart from the ship of course) is that you have a shield cell bank. If you turn it off does it make any difference?
I'm going to dig out my Python tomorrow when I have a chance and go through the numbers for the larger shields and power generators again to see if I can work out what's happening. Thanks again.
Yeah, same here - I'm tempted, but I've not used it - same as the logout-mainmenu-login undocking bug - it just makes the game feel like, well - a game, as opposed to flying my ship out of the station.
The times I have jumped out/back in have only been because spawns have finished - and I don't like the way that works either. I'm well aware of the P2P/instancing limitations, but I absolutely hate the way all ships in any environment (bar possibly ongoing instances with CMDR already present in Open?) reset when you jump in - police ships near stations always starting with each other, 3-4 vapour trails always moving from that one start point - the way a conflict zone looks like a badly edited scene from an amateur film, with actors stationary for half a second before the director yells "...aaaaand... action!".
It might be difficult to program a system where the ships you see are already "doing something" when you drop into an instance, rather than either all jumping in after you arrive or looking suspiciously immobile for a short time, but it would be a huge increase in immersion...
e: this goes even moreso for capital ships in solo. I mean, I jump out for 30 seconds and, it's GONE? OH THERE IT IS AGAIN.
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