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Title: Smart shields
Post by: watsisname on October 23, 2005, 04:17:12 pm

I was going through some of the options in the FS2 Open launcher, and one of them was "enable smart shields".  I was just wondering exactly what this does, as when I played with it on I didn't notice any difference.  There was no online help for that feature, and a search on the forums didn't yeild any direct results.  So uh... what exactly does it do?  
   Thanks in advance.

Title: Smart shields
Post by: StratComm on October 23, 2005, 04:34:45 pm

As the announcement says, search is FUBAR'd right now, so I'm not suprised you couldn't find the documentation.  You'll notice the difference if you play through the training mission that teaches you about shield balance.  What it does is recharge depeleted quadrants faster if other quadrants are at full strength, which means that once a section has taken damage it tends to come back up faster.  It makes little difference if the shields are either hit only once or twice or are pounded into oblivion, which is the common case.