Hello, I'm looking to change my shield setup on my Corvette, currently reinforced and HD boosters with approx 5.3k MJ strength.
Since the last update I've noticed a considerable change and feel alot squishier. I'm interested in thermal shield+resistant augmented boosted and maybe 2 64% hd boysters.
Is there a cap to resistancese or a diminishing returns value?? And can anyone recommend other setups?
Many thanks in advance.
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I would need to search for it, but there is indeed a diminishing returns on how Resistances work.
First Resist Augment Shield Boosters got nerfed, the cap being reduced from 15% to 13%, so every booster you had lost effectively 2%.
For the maths, turn the resistance to a damage multiplier first - -20% resistance becomes a 1.2 multiplier, while a 15% resistance becomes 0.85.
Second, multiply them together as you add the Shield Generator resistances to the Shield Booster resistances. Of course to fix that, add thermal resists on the Shield gen so the numbers change to 35% thermal, or 0.65 - with hopefully 4x resistance boosters it'll become 0.65*0.85*0.85*0.85*0.85=0.3393040625, or approximately 66% resists.
Then there is the higher diminishing returns on top of that, resistances above 50% get reduced again - I can't recall if it was stated, but I've assumed 50% reduction and its proven to be accurate.
So, take that 0.3393040625 multiplier and turn it into resistances - 0.6606959375, take off the 0.5 leaving 0.1606959375 and reduce that by half to 0.08034796875, then add the base 50% back for what should be the final 0.58034796875 or 58% total.
And in hopefully a simple nutshell, that is how the shields get hit with diminishing returns nowadays.
Of course, as I stated all Resistance Augmented shields got hit by 2%, so that is likely part o the squishiness you feel. Might need to add that additional resistance booster to accomodate.
