Kieve wrote:English Narwhal wrote:Not to be the idea sniper, but I'm pretty sure that you can't make a weapon that 'surrounds' a ship as a shield does. It's hard coded, I think, for weapons (other then beams and bombs) to shoot and hit/miss.
Following this theory, you could target your own ship with a "Shield Projector" bomb (or, bomb-type), which would generate a graphic much like a shield bubble. Bombs can take hits just like anything else, which means the fake shield would function the same way. You could then have Shield Projectors of varying size and power requirements, to protect critical systems from missiles or similar.
I may have to test this myself...
Yay! I did something semi-useful!