Shield Strength Survival
- Thread starter Mayan Fury
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Spoken like a true noob. I used to think that way, but with more combat experience comes wisdom.
oh, dear.
Probably the best way to get revenge on them. Make them salty. They'd soon be on here complaining.
Naw, spoken like a guy who got schit to do - I don't stop for people doing questionnaires in the street either.
doesn't it take longer to log out and log back in than to evade and jump away?
maybe on PC it doesn't. it certainly would on Xbox.
shrug Probably
Just watch out for those reverb tops or mines.
thanks for everyones input 
Shield raw strength is pretty much meaningless (outside of top tier dedicated PvP against PA FDLs). People I fight usually think I am running engineered prismatics and are shocked when I tell them I actually have Bi-weave.
4 pips to systems = 225% more shields , never forget that.
50% resistance to the shield = 100% more damage needed to get through you
So .. a 4 pip shield with 50% resistance of 1000MJ will take 4000MJ of damage.
Resistances over 50% have diminishing returns.. so go heavy duty after that
Pick a ship with lots of utility slots - put lots of shield boosters there with a mix of resistances so you end up with +50% in everything
Do not underestimate the power of a good hull. Lots of paper ships out there that break into pieces once their shield is down:
Get at least a couple of upgrades to the hull. The best investment is reactive engineered with thermal resist.
The same thing applies with hull as the shields. The nice trick here is that a mere Class 1 Hull Reinforcement with 30% resist will improve your hull dramatically
So stack a few low class hull reinforcements until your resistances are again at least over 30%
With a bit of investment and engineering you can easily quadruple the amount of hull damage you can take
Also.. the danger of ganking is totally and grossly overrated. I just spent yesterday 4 hours trading with my Cutter about 50-100 Ly around Sol with a Multi-hop route. I didn't meet a single commander.. NONE.. nevermind a ganker. I was actually hoping to gank some hostile power CMDrs while trading. Got tired of not meeting anyone and swapped my interdictor for an automatic docking as the only rebuy I faced was getting stuck with my Cutter in the station, unable to logout quickly enough before blasted to pieces.
As for combat logging (exit to menu in 15secs)? Sure.. you have the legal right to do it but you might as well play in Solo. The whole point to gank evasion is the feeling you have bested your attacker using in-game mechanics. Makes it sweeter.
4 pips to systems = 225% more shields , never forget that.
50% resistance to the shield = 100% more damage needed to get through you
So .. a 4 pip shield with 50% resistance of 1000MJ will take 4000MJ of damage.
Resistances over 50% have diminishing returns.. so go heavy duty after that
Pick a ship with lots of utility slots - put lots of shield boosters there with a mix of resistances so you end up with +50% in everything
Do not underestimate the power of a good hull. Lots of paper ships out there that break into pieces once their shield is down:
Get at least a couple of upgrades to the hull. The best investment is reactive engineered with thermal resist.
The same thing applies with hull as the shields. The nice trick here is that a mere Class 1 Hull Reinforcement with 30% resist will improve your hull dramatically
So stack a few low class hull reinforcements until your resistances are again at least over 30%
With a bit of investment and engineering you can easily quadruple the amount of hull damage you can take
Also.. the danger of ganking is totally and grossly overrated. I just spent yesterday 4 hours trading with my Cutter about 50-100 Ly around Sol with a Multi-hop route. I didn't meet a single commander.. NONE.. nevermind a ganker. I was actually hoping to gank some hostile power CMDrs while trading. Got tired of not meeting anyone and swapped my interdictor for an automatic docking as the only rebuy I faced was getting stuck with my Cutter in the station, unable to logout quickly enough before blasted to pieces.
As for combat logging (exit to menu in 15secs)? Sure.. you have the legal right to do it but you might as well play in Solo. The whole point to gank evasion is the feeling you have bested your attacker using in-game mechanics. Makes it sweeter.
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