Capital Ship Shields

[Garbageben]

I don't know if this has already been asked but : Will, or do you think, capital ship shields are counted as one whole shield or will there be fore, aft, and side shield components. That way your ship could lose starboard shields and roll to bring it's port side to bear while the starboard shields are brought back up.

[TSKNF]

I think each targetable section of the ship has it's own shields. On smaller ships it's probably just one all-round shield.

[Vader89]

Yeah thats what i think too, just from what ive seen.

[Ghostly_Substance]

Well even with the sensors down why the hell did the SSD then lose shields ? Lucasarts error ? If a Tie Fighter didn't do nothing how the hell could a A-Wing do damage when shields were up ? I know one of the crew said bring it up but wasn't it already up ?

 

Anyways I bet SD or other ships would have different area of shields since you'd need a massive generator for the hole area. 1 in front and 2 in the back and 2 in the middle for top and bottom (Guessing here dont quote me), then one massive power generating one for the tower.

[General Ackbar]

hmmmm i think there should be top, bottom, l side, r side, front, rear for ship sheilds. at least for the capitol ships anyways

[Darkmark]

I think each targetable section of the ship has it's own shields. On smaller ships it's probably just one all-round shield.

 

Or one of the individual hardpoints for capital ships represents a shield generator on board and taking it down takes down the shields. To be fair I prefer to think its designed the way you say, but we really can't say. I wonder if Little.B noticed how they worked...

[Joshinator]

It would be nice if there were a few gens representing each shield arc. but let's be realistic. From what i've seen from the vids, it's just 1 big shield bar, then hull. Maybe they did more, we don't know.

[Swiftdraw]

Maybe the bar is just a general indicator of the overall status of the shields. You could still take 'em down in sections.

[plokoon9619]

Well even with the sensors down why the hell did the SSD then lose shields ? Lucasarts error ? If a Tie Fighter didn't do nothing how the hell could a A-Wing do damage when shields were up ? I know one of the crew said bring it up but wasn't it already up ?

 

Anyways I bet SD or other ships would have different area of shields since you'd need a massive generator for the hole area. 1 in front and 2 in the back and 2 in the middle for top and bottom (Guessing here dont quote me), then one massive power generating one for the tower.

 

They are both shield and sensor domes. The one on the bottom protects the whole ship while the 2 ones on bridge are both sensor and shield. The shields are on bridge to protect it from dieing as it is the vital point on the SD class ships. Want me to explain more? Just pm me

[Ghostly_Substance]

errr........who designed the damn SD's in the Star Wars universe, they deserve a lesson in concealed defences............

[Naja]

they deserve a lesson in concealed defences

 

This from an Empire that sends soldiers dressed in bright white armor into a forest??

[Joshinator]

Hahaha, that's such a good call

[Little.B]

Mh. I cant tell for sure if there are side, front etc. shields. One thing I noticed is that sometimes when shields were down to roughly 50% percent (the blue bar is down to the middle) there was also little damage done to the hull.

 

But I cant tell why this happens because there was no indicator for this (side shields down or whatever)

[Teradyn_pff]

Given the scope of this conflict, I don't think that the shields are going to be directional. They probably wont do the shields right anyway, going with the usual game idea that the domes are shield generators. They never were, they are sensors. The shields were actually projected from a network of little protrutions like antena all over the hull.

[Foshjedi2004]

The shields on the SDs are directional therefore by directing on one place you can take out the shields in one region and subsequently weaken them as the shields are redistributed from a free region to restore shields. Its called keeping them even.

[Naja]

Don't some ships have the ability to re-route power to the shields?

[General Ackbar]

Don't some ships have the ability to re-route power to the shields?

 

thatd be nice

[Ghostly_Substance]

Don't some ships have the ability to re-route power to the shields?

 

rolls the Eight ball

................and the eight ball says "Yes many of them do but captains were lazy".

[Joshinator]

Or the ship is of Mon Cal design, and has dedicated back up shield gens

[Teradyn_pff]

Don't some ships have the ability to re-route power to the shields?

 

Don't you mean like in Star Trek?

 

Seriously though, if we have energy to re-rout to the shields, why wasn't it there in the first place when we went into battle? Never have figured that one out.

[Admiral Cotla Charre]

Reason the A-wing took down the SSD was because the shields had been destroyed. In that moment, the A-wing crashed into the bridge (shields would have stopped that, recall) and it was depressurized (meaning everybody on deck = dead).

[Samheyn]

mhhhm.... the domes on top of the bridge tower are the deflector shield domes, no sensors. You may read this in every vehicles guide. In fact I thought I remember how one of the SSDs two domes got destroyed and therefore the front shield failed. Indeed the shields are "projected" by a network of little antena, but the power needed to shield the massive SDs is produced inside these domes, one for the front and one for the back.

[Teradyn_pff]

The books might have been changed once canon was changed as a result of the games, but I understood the first iteration of canon (silly Lucas) had them being sensor domes.

[Joshinator]

I remember reading in one of the books, where a carack cruiser while under attack, diverted power to it's shields, the officer in charge of the shields even diverted power from the anti grav plating, to keep the sheilds online. I can't remember which book. Maybe the one with the si rook?

[Vader89]

mhhhm.... the domes on top of the bridge tower are the deflector shield domes, no sensors. You may read this in every vehicles guide. In fact I thought I remember how one of the SSDs two domes got destroyed and therefore the front shield failed. Indeed the shields are "projected" by a network of little antena, but the power needed to shield the massive SDs is produced inside these domes, one for the front and one for the back.

 

I always thought that was dumb, big huge imperial ships always have an exposed weakspot. WHy couldnt they put them IN the ship?