Separate Def value into Shield and Hull

posted on June 16th, 2010, 11:21 pm

Quite self-explanatory what I'm requesting.

Reason I would like it is that different races ships have different hull/shield ratios; shields are far more important than hull to the Feds due to subsystem failure chances, while hull is more important to Klingons; makes no sense to just give a combined hull and shield value.

Combined def value also makes it harder to compare ships between races, such as comparing a Warbird to a Borg ship (Warbird is unlikely to stick around once shields are down, Borg ship will flee at around 40 health though.)

[Tyler]

posted on June 16th, 2010, 11:24 pm

Last edited by Tyler on June 16th, 2010, 11:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Defence value is mainly meant to compare how much damage it can take, not how much damage specific systems can take. Not much reason to change it.

posted on June 17th, 2010, 12:19 am

actually i support Nebula_Class_Ftw in thsi point

posted on June 17th, 2010, 12:34 am

We already have the hull hitpoints visible, plus the level of shield/hull health left before they collapse is also visible.

Changing the purpose of defensive value, I don't agree with. Changing the health bar rollover tooltip so it includes shields as well as hull, I do.

posted on June 17th, 2010, 1:00 am

Changing the health bar rollover tooltip so it includes shields as well as hull, I do.

now that i agree with!

posted on June 17th, 2010, 3:33 am

I agree on the extra shield info.

posted on June 17th, 2010, 3:44 am

I have to say "nay", as I think this would be just another number taking up more space.

  Defensive value is "overall".  It's not the End-all and it's not the finish line .  It's just a brief way to help you quickly gauge the way a battle should go.

posted on June 17th, 2010, 5:35 am

yep. the idea of the basic vessel attributes is to have three quick numbers to compare vessels and offer a guideline for newcomers on what a vessel is designed for. It will never be a precise unit description, and its not ment to be one.

posted on June 17th, 2010, 11:15 pm

what about shield hitpoints?? will that be in some future patches?