The case for Mirrored Surface Composite

[RickDangerous]

When deciding what bulkhead to use for your combat kitted ship, consider the following. It might seem like a good idea to go for Reactive Surface Composite, since once the attacker is through your shield, multi-cannons will do lots of hull damage. However, my feeling is that with the introduction of shield banks our assumptions have to change a bit as well.

The problem is this: with a good shield and a good shield bank, your shields should never go down. Ever. If they get close to breaking, just use that shield cell, and you're up again. Meaning: IF your shields go down then your opponent most likely has LOTS of REALLY good lasers, or otherwise you would never see the shield go down. Hence, with that in mind the Mirrored Surface Composite bulkhead is the only logical choice, to continue working against your thermically equipped opponent.

QED.

Makes sense?

 

[Avnas]

When deciding what bulkhead to use for your combat kitted ship, consider the following. It might seem like a good idea to go for Reactive Surface Composite, since once the attacker is through your shield, multi-cannons will do lots of hull damage. However, my feeling is that with the introduction of shield banks our assumptions have to change a bit as well.

The problem is this: with a good shield and a good shield bank, your shields should never go down. Ever. If they get close to breaking, just use that shield cell, and you're up again. Meaning: IF your shields go down then your opponent most likely has LOTS of REALLY good lasers, or otherwise you would never see the shield go down. Hence, with that in mind the Mirrored Surface Composite bulkhead is the only logical choice, to continue working against your thermically equipped opponent.

QED.

Makes sense?

this line of thought is probably correct, alough it's going to go out the window when you're being attacked by an anaconda with 8 plasma accelerators

 

[RickDangerous]

this line of thought is probably correct, alough it's going to go out the window when you're being attacked by an anaconda with 8 plasma accelerators

Right, so I just recently fought a pirate Anaconda with LOTS of lasers (46k bounty). It was tough, but since I could use shield cells 3 times during that fight, I was never really in trouble. Just wore him down. 8 plasma accelerators are probably easier to evade than the turrets Anacondas usually are equipped with, to be honest.

 

[Tempered]

Usually my shields drop from a lucky shot with a couple rail guns or plasma cannons, and I've never actually seen the need to add extra weight to my ship with anything other than the defacto light armor.