Shields

[SanadaUjiosan]

So I'm working on the shields for my faction, and realized I need something ironed out. ShieldPower is the strength of the shield, and I'm guessing a weapons damage depletes that amount from the ShieldPower. But, I have a handful of armor types, and I wondered which value it reads for the shield. If my actual shield generator is in the Building armor category, does that mean the shield looks for the Building damage value from the weapon it's blocking?

[maackey]

I don't think shields use armordefs to change damage for the shields.
They use
interceptedByShieldType = 1,
shieldInterceptType = 3,
tags. So basically a binary matchup of the numbers will block shots, but otherwise weapons will go through.

[SanadaUjiosan]

Yeah, but I mean like what determines how fast the shield is depleted. I've got what controls what can go through or not down, it's the depletion/strength of the shield that's my question. Does each shot subtract its damage from the shield power, or is each shot like just a -1 from the shield power. And if it is weapon damage, which damage does it read if there's multiple kinds of damage.

[maackey]

Ahh, I misunderstood. Although I've never heard anything relating armordefs to the shield drain, I do believe that greater weapon damage drains the shields quicker, but mostly its just observational evidence; I haven't really looked at the code and can't help much beyond that, sorry.

[KDR_11k]

For a destroying shield it drains the projectile's default damage, for a deflector shield it's some wonky equation based on the force.

[Google_Frog]

Do not use deflector shields if you want balance between damage per second and damage per second. If you want even vaguely logical drain against multiple weapon types (cannon, laser, rocket etc..) forget about using deflector shields.

[lurker]

It's not a wonky equation, it's 1x weapon damage per second. The trouble comes when weapons spend different amounts of time inside the deflector.

[Forboding Angel]

It's not a wonky equation, it's 1x weapon damage per second. The trouble comes when weapons spend different amounts of time inside the deflector.

There should be a way to define the total amount that a reflection will cost. Doing it vs weapon damage is very narrow and limited.

[SanadaUjiosan]

Alright, first of all, the shield won't be a deflector so it seems I'm in the clear of any alleged wonkiness.

Second of all, here's an example of one of my weapon defs.

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	      damage                  = {
		Cruiser = 15,
		Building = 15,
		Mech = 15,
		Tank = 15,
		Aircraft = 15,
		Ship = 15,
		Sub = 1,
	      },

So, there's no default, unless you mean the first in the list.

[KDR_11k]

Default defaults to 1.

[SanadaUjiosan]

Super awesome. Spring shows me whats for once again.