Shield light won\'t go away?

Zombie · Post by **Zombie** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:49 pm

I know I'm probably missing something totally obvious but I have the red shield light to the left of my targeting reticule that won't go away. I try repair... I even just upgraded. I'm such a noob.

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:51 pm

you need to have a piece of equpment on your ship named "shield booster" this is a vital piece of equipment and your shield will not work without it

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:48 pm

Hi Zombie, welcome to the forum and the Sim.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:46 pm

Hi Zombie, Welcome to the Game and Forum! Hope to see you out there!

Nigel_Strange · Post by **Nigel_Strange** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:55 pm

There is something kind of weird about it.

I think the ship has shields, regardless of whether you have a shield boost or not. The shield boost acts as a multiplier for shield power, so obviously, your original shield power can't be zero!

So, if you have never used a shield boost, then you should not have the shield light on. when you put shield booster on, though, it seems to 'reset' the level that your ship expects your shields to be at, so without the shield boost, your shields always seem to be underpowered. I had thought about dropping the shield boost, exiting, and restarting the game to see if this effect goes away, but I never figured the issue was important enough to worry about.

It would be interesting if you had raw data for how much power your shields have. I don't mean percentage, I mean joules or something.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:04 pm

Did you try augmenting your shield with the numberpad keys 4, 8, 6 and 2 ?

I noticed this to when hit by an enemy missile while docked at a Station and then after paying the station for repair the shield location of the impact stay's red till I mannually augment the shield with said keys and energy is set to +5!;)

TGS · Post by **TGS** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:38 pm

I could be wrong vs some of the more experienced players here but I'm pretty sure your shields do not function without a booster of some level. The "shield" acts as a integrated feature of your built ship however I don't think it actually provides any protection without a booster.

Then again I could be wrong, that's just the impression I got from a bit of testing.