RHUI : What is "Shield Health" units ?
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On the right hand UI,STATUS tab-STATISTICS section, there is a "shield health" with a number. It doesn't sound like MJ as it seems too low.
What is the units or what is it ? and how does it correlate with MJ ?
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If i'm not mistaken that's your shield MJ with 0 pip
MJ. Same metric as weapon damage stats. The idea is, scientifically speaking, the bullet walks up to the shield and says “heres my damage in MJ and heres my damage type” shield says “k brb gonna go calculate.” Shield walks away, calculates resistances and pips and whatever, comes back a nanosecond later and says “k now I have this many MJs.”
I posted this thread because my value doesn't make sense !
Someone give me a ballpark figure for shield health for a well shielded cutter ? python ?
Shields can be crummy if not set up right. Godly if engineered.
I’ll use the python as an example.
6A shield + 2 0A boosters is just over 550mj
6A prismatic shield + 2 0A boosters, all modified with grade 5 Heavy Duty, can exceed 1500mj easily.
Well shielded cutter 4000+, well shielded python about 1000. My biweave python with 2.4 thermal engineering only runs about 370.
Dognosh in my experience this figure is always accurate, what makes you think it's not?
11,300
Your shield setup ?
I dunno, I keep hearing 7000-10000 for a cutter and I am way off(I know Bi-Weaves are less powerful)
Lol, I was kinda (half...) joking.
With hard-ceiling reinforced prismatic and 8 x HD boosters the Cutter maxes at just over 11,300 Mj.
My Python with 6A Prismatics (G5 thermal/hicap) and 2 0A boosters (both G5 Heavy Duty) is sitting at 1163 28%kinetic 38%thermal 50%explosive. I just threw in some stuff laying around, normally don't run 6 shields on it.
6A Prismatic on my Cutter is right over 4k shields w/ 7 boosters and all resists are around 70%. With 8A and still keeping good resists, it is 8kish if I remember right. It's 300ly away atm so don't have hard numbers, sorry.
Your shield setup ?
I dunno, I keep hearing 7000-10000 for a cutter and I am way off(I know Bi-Weaves are less powerful)
You said 'well shielded' not the best there can be. As you correctly say, the difference between a thermal resist biweave and a reinforced prismatic is in the hundreds of percent.
My corvette can make more than 4k, but that would rarely be optimal if you want the truth. Depends how you fight. 
The right-panel statistics is your raw shield strength in MJ, before resistances, at 0 sys pips.
Resistances are then listed separately as percentages.
Example - If you have 45% kinetic resist on a 500MJ shield that means that your incoming kinetic damage is 55% remaining so just divide 500 by 0.55 for a total of 909 effective shield in MJ against kinetic attack with zero sys pips.
If you want to know the effective shield strengths with more sys pips, multiply by 1.5 for 2 pips and multiply by 2.5 for 4 pips.
Resistances are then listed separately as percentages.
Example - If you have 45% kinetic resist on a 500MJ shield that means that your incoming kinetic damage is 55% remaining so just divide 500 by 0.55 for a total of 909 effective shield in MJ against kinetic attack with zero sys pips.
If you want to know the effective shield strengths with more sys pips, multiply by 1.5 for 2 pips and multiply by 2.5 for 4 pips.