• Registered: 2018-05-27
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Topic: Question re: SFU shields

This is a question for Daniel...in the "SFU Unity" thread, you posted:

If the total Starmada shields do not equal 20% of the total SFB/FC Shield Boxes, a further modification is made, adding one to the forward shields or subtracting one from the Aft shields, as appropriate. In the case of the Burke, there should be 22 shields (108 x 20%), but the calculations only yield 21, so the Fwd shield gets a bump.

The Klingon F5W which I created had shields 8-5-5-4. The FC version has 26-20-16-16-16-20 (1 thru 6). This adds up to 114. 20% of 114 = 22.8, which rounds to 23. The Starmada shields add up to 22, but in this case I chose NOT to bump the fwd shield up to 9 because I felt that was unrealistically high in relation to the other shields, particularly the aft, being more than 2x as strong. Did I make the right decision? Or should I change the fwd shield from 8 to 9?

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Re: Question re: SFU shields

You could bump the rear shield to 5, if you wanted. I personally would choose to bump the forward shield to be consistent with the rest of the SFU conversions, but there's no reason you couldn't do it a different way.

Daniel Kast
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  • Registered: 2018-05-27
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Re: Question re: SFU shields

Okay, will do that (bump up the fwd shield). It just seemed out of whack to me because of the way the numbers scale, but upon consideration I agree that it should be consistent across the board.