@melanol said in Fix cybran T3 shielding:
Strong elsewhere.
Balance team thankfully doesn't have the same mindset as you, as they buffed the aeon frigate despite aeon having the strongest destroyer.
@protect said in Fix cybran T3 shielding:
have better shields<hives
T1 engy 52/5 = 10.4 mass/bp --- T1 hive 350/20 = 17.5 mass/bp
T2 engy 130/13 = 10 mass/bp --- T2 hive 700/37 = 18.91 mass/bp
T3 engy 312/32 = 9.75 mass/bp --- T3 hive 1050/50 = 21 mass/bp
T3 engy is more than 2x efficient than a T3 hive at this point. Hives do have longer range and don't suffer from pathfinding issues, but in arty wars you generally have most important stuff under 1 or 2 shields, and assisting one or both with T3 engies is completely viable
Besides, tech can be shared. Having hives can be nice, but the existence of hives do not make T3 engineers completely redundant. Other faction's T3 shields however do make cybran shields completely redundant, and pretty much forces cybran players to ask for other tech if it comes to arty wars.
I've also sandboxed that Cybran shields cost more mass to repair than aeon (didn't test UEF or sera).
After taking T3 pgen explosion damage (5500), 10 Hives used 992 mass to repair an ED5, while they used 906 mass to repair an aeon T3 shield.