I'd like to see SRV shields that behave like their ship counterparts

[bicarbon8]

currently, in a SRV, you can sustain hull damage while your shields are fully engaged. If you drive the SRV into a rock or structure, you sustain hull damage and the shields remain at full. Attempting the same in a ship results in the shields taking damage and eventually going offline and only then do you sustain hull damage.

Here's an example of the SRV crashing back down to the ground from 5 Km in the air and keeping the shields at full while the hull dropped to 95%: https://youtu.be/4v1kXSLi8pA

The only things I've found, so far, that cause the SRV shields to drop are weapons fire from skimmers / goliaths, base defence turrets and ships.

Would it be possible to have the SRV shields work more like the shields of a ship where any impact, be it from weapons or structures, will first decrease the shields and only impact the hull when the shields eventually go offline?

 

[space voyager]

I support this suggestion.

 

[disorganise]

How do the wheels then interact with the ground?

 

[bicarbon8]

How do the wheels then interact with the ground?

Same way as the cargo scoop of a ship can pick up canisters on a planetary surface through the shields

 

[disorganise]

What I mean is, if the shield is like a hard shell that takes damage hitting rocks, then wouldn't it be scraping constantly?

For the ship you can argue that the landing gear penetrates the shield so the 'bubble' is just above ground. If you assume same for SRV, then the wheels are outside the shield and thus must take damage against rocks.....possibly this is what happens now, but it is inconsistent in the approach (hitting a big rock front on with the cabin should flare the shield as you suggest). 90% of the damage my srv takes is due to the wheels hitting a rock rather than the body.

 

[disorganise]

Fwiw I drive with shields off to save power. Should also say, my instinct was that the shield would protect from rock damage

 

[BurntJello]

+support

I probably would have survived my 20km vertical boost-ramped fall off a mountain into a deep canyon several weeks back (survived the first bounce... insta-death on the 2nd ... was fun though)

 

[bicarbon8]

What I mean is, if the shield is like a hard shell that takes damage hitting rocks, then wouldn't it be scraping constantly?

For the ship you can argue that the landing gear penetrates the shield so the 'bubble' is just above ground. If you assume same for SRV, then the wheels are outside the shield and thus must take damage against rocks.....possibly this is what happens now, but it is inconsistent in the approach (hitting a big rock front on with the cabin should flare the shield as you suggest). 90% of the damage my srv takes is due to the wheels hitting a rock rather than the body.

ah, I understand your point now. many times I find that I can drive my wheel over rocks successfully (no hull damage), but if I were to straddle the same rock instead it scrapes the SRV and causes hull damage. So, if the shield even just excluded the wheels, but still worked like the shields on a ship for those kinetic impacts I'd be happy.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I'd actually like it the other way around.

Crashing in to stuff should bypass shields on ships. Lol

 

[son of khzvoltz]

you guys need to remember, shields on ships are actualy much larger then those fitted on a SRV,

the SRV's shell protects against high velocity and thermal attack, just like those huge bubble shields he Gungans use in starwars Ep1 but since the shield is optomised for that, it sacrifices Colision protection

think the SRV's as using class 0.5 sheilds

 

[Alec Turner]

Fwiw I drive with shields off to save power. Should also say, my instinct was that the shield would protect from rock damage

I'd actually like it the other way around.

Crashing in to stuff should bypass shields on ships. Lol

Yup to both of these. It feels more logical to me that shields, as a shell of electromagnetic energy around the ship/SRV, should protect against energy weapons but not so much against crashing into a rock or a space station. That said, I don't really mind the way ship shields work but it does seem slightly odd that SRV shields don't have any affect on collision damage whatsoever. Mind you, I also think they've got the damage stat's on SRVs just about perfect (putting aside the issue of immoveable small rocks). What I mean is that it seems nicely balanced that, if you don't screw up too badly, you can juussst about race the entire 50km from Elwood Camp to Fergusson Prospect on Wasat A2E without needing to repair en-route.

Spoiler

[video=youtube_share;ah2DVLCXMLE]https://youtu.be/ah2DVLCXMLE[/video]

 

[Ca$hback]

And here's me wishing the exact opposite, that ship's shields behaved more like SRV shields, letting a substantial amount of damage through.