I have an A3 shield in my 120t-hauler-Asp for now. It goes down pretty quickly even under sidewinder fire, but it's still a LOT better than nothing.
This is intended and confirmed by a Dev multiple shield cell banks are sometimes nessisary to fully charge larger shieldsIs this not happening because multiple shield cell banks were never intended to be used? I have seen threads complaining they are too powerful and unbalance the game creating invulnerable ships. If only one bank were allowed it would help to correct this.
Go into your right UI screen, select "modules" and disable one of the shield cell modules, then you will only fire one shield cell when with each keypress. When you've used up all the shield cells in a module disable that module and enable the second shield cell module.On the subject of mapping Shield Cells to a HOTAS button... I've done this but I have (had) two shield cell components. I am now sure that when I hit the button it fires BOTH of them - this doesn't happen if you map to a fire group. Anyone else seen this or aware of it or it's a known bug or... ?