Shield fuel processor?

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:12 pm

I tried deploying a shield array around a fuel processor to refuel shielded. Didn't work.

Is there a reason?

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:19 pm

No, it should work!

Try at another location and see if the
problem remains.

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:31 pm

Nope. Doesn't work. I get a Deploy Point is Obstructed message. Tried two very different locations. Fuel processor deployed just fine.

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:42 pm

Try turnig your ship before deploying
the shield so it's not in the center of
the fuel processor, or deploying the
shield first.

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 1:28 am

Tried turning, moving, placing deploy in different spots, tried shield first then processor. Nothing worked.

The fuel processor would only deploy outside of the shield bubble.

I could always see the shield generating device in the center of the shield field.

Any ideas?

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:03 pm

Some guys manage to almost completely cover a deployed object with the shield. The best I can manage is partial coverage by creeping away from the refueling base until it no longer obstructs the shield deployment. Giving me just enough protection to keep enemy ships from blowing me up as I refuel.

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:29 pm

Did shield arrays always work that way?

What is the point of a shield array if it won't shield?

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:52 pm

I think the function was changed awhile back but I could be wrong.

***SPOILER ALERT BELOW*****

You can deploy the shield then the fuel processor after you move away a little at a time till you can build the processor. You can see that the center of the fuel station is just outside the shields edge.

[Edited on 3-12-2013 by thetiebers]

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:00 pm

That's pretty much how mine looks. It works. And there are numerous other uses for a shield array.

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:51 pm

Hi thetiebers,

Thank you for the photo.

Not really a spoiler.

I have been tinkering around with the deploys and come up with pretty much the same.

I am still perplexed as to why not a full shield coverage.

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:12 pm

From post: 159762, Topic: tid=10680, author=DORN wrote:I am still perplexed as to why not a full shield coverage.

Check far back in the forum for complaints about overlapping built objects. Some of them either accidently or deliberately blocked access to stations.

[Edited on 3-13-2013 by Marvin]

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:48 pm

Yes, whenever some one abuses certain features of the game, the rest of us will have to live with the consequences when the corrective measures put in effect affects other facets of the game, relatively speaking that is!.....

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:25 pm

Now I understand.

Thanks, all.