Engineers Thermal resistant shielding

[SoulScar]

Hi commanders,

I have just upgraded my A4 shields with G5 thermal resistance to balance resistances for a res build FDL. Unfortunately for me I didn't realise this upgrade made my single SCB generate 240% heat and my heat efficiency is now utter garbage. Before the upgrade I never generated more than 140-50% and could fire and still reduce heat build up. It has clean drive tuning and a G1 power plant (don't need power) upgrade with the weapons on G4 rapid fire so its heat efficient.

Is this a bug or is there a mechanic I am unaware of? The details of the modification say nothing with regards heat efficiency of the shield generator. Using a heat sink would remove the benefit of the Thermal res upgrade. I suppose with the thermal res upgrade I could swap 2 G5 res shield boosters for 2 G5 HD to give more shield strength and ditch the SCB. Seems harsh to me if its a deliberate mechanic.

Thanks in advance.

 

[domaq]

Interesting. I have not seen this difference when modding shields. My 1 data point is that it is not normal.

 

[Weps]

Not aware of any mechanic which would change the thermal load of either the shield or the bank. Are you sure this isn't a result of you modding something else too, like getting dirty drives and an overcharged PP at the same time? Were you perhaps attacked by something thermal?

Edit: Best thing would be to test this again in a non-combat situation. Maybe drop your shields by scraping against something. Then, without firing, boosting and whatnot, use a cell and see what happens.

 

[Heavenly-Hammer]

No, this does not sound normal, CMDR.

Check the modification itself in the ship loadout screen. If you don't see anything impacting Thermal load on the shield or the booster, your issue is elsewhere.

 

[SoulScar]

I was doing war zones at the time and figured I would pick up 4 ion disruptors and flew over and upgraded it. Literally changed nothing on the build prior to this crazy heat problem. I originally figured I must have been hit with a few Thermal shocks so before I docked up I hit the SCB and almost popped. I have clean drive tuning G4 so it should be gravy. I give up with the build for now and jumped back into the Anaconda, I get similar heat from 2 X size 6A SCB on the conda at the same time with dirty drive and incendiary MC's firing. Like I said it was weird so I mentioned it, I will go back later and see if its still doing it, try swapping some stuff around. Mainly wondered if anyone else had similar issues. Could be just on the 4A shield generator with that specific G5 upgrade, if the problem persists I will try it on a 5A and 7A just to be sure.

Thanks for the replies

 

[Kubicide]

As suggested check the mod specs for all your gear. I had an odd result with a shield RNGineer upgrade where the thermal stat text on the right showed a crazy increase of something like +1500% (max. should have been single to double digit xx%) - definitely looked like a bug so I quickly abandoned the roll. I'm always carefully watching the stats now as I suspect the math will go crazy at times.