seeing as we can now upgrade our shields it would be nice to have a visible representation of how well protected you are with various configurations, my suggestion is simply this: the basic starter shield shows as one ring around your ship, the next one up shows two and so on all the way up to the highest grade generator that has five.
if this makes the graphic a little too big then instead of a blue ring every other upgrade could be shown in red, like they are when you take some damage. this would indicate that although improved, your new generator doesn't quite have the power to fully charge the next ring.
i feel this will be especially important now we can own more than one ship as it gives a visual indicator of how tough your shields are, so that when swapping between vessels you can tell at a glance how far you can afford to push it in combat and you wont have to make a note of each ships shields to be aware how good they are.
so, if you love a ship you wouldn't just put one ring on it, you would put three to five rings on it
thoughts/suggestions?
if this makes the graphic a little too big then instead of a blue ring every other upgrade could be shown in red, like they are when you take some damage. this would indicate that although improved, your new generator doesn't quite have the power to fully charge the next ring.
i feel this will be especially important now we can own more than one ship as it gives a visual indicator of how tough your shields are, so that when swapping between vessels you can tell at a glance how far you can afford to push it in combat and you wont have to make a note of each ships shields to be aware how good they are.
so, if you love a ship you wouldn't just put one ring on it, you would put three to five rings on it
thoughts/suggestions?
