Shields on stations?

[Fatboy]

Is it possible to have a station with a shield?

[Periculi]

I don't think so.

[F50]

Why not? Try to add a one to the devices tag.

[Periculi]

I have.

[Fatboy]

I have too and when I destroyed the station I looked in there and there was a damaged deflector.

[Periculi]

But when you shot at the station it didn't actually have a shield. I tested this multiple ways- throw a 10000 hp shield on a charon pirate cache and watch it totally not work.

[F50]

hmph. You're right. I did that with a Tailkon 200. Odd.

George?

[Periculi]

Perhaps Stations are too large an object for our puny EarthSpace shield generators!

[Fatboy]

One solution is to take the the station and convert it to a ship that CANNOT move.

[Periculi]

Why? Stations are treated with more abilities in the game engine, so changing a station to a ship reduces the usefulness of the station object.

[Arisaya]

But when you shot at the station it didn't actually have a shield. I tested this multiple ways- throw a 10000 hp shield on a charon pirate cache and watch it totally not work.

[digdug]

what about using the same trick as George did with the CSC ?
CSC are ships with the order "hold" generated by a station that is without image and without hps.

[Periculi]

Hmm.. and they have a bunch of the usual station features, and they are all run through a single ship type (Commonwealth Star Carrier). But did you notice they don't have any shields either?

[F50]

I wonder if its the multihull variable...