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What does the shield modifier do??

cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited November 2013 in Federation Discussion
I know, i know. Basic thing and I should know it, since I?ve been playing for over 2 years. But when you look at ship info, it says shield modifiers, and then a number. What does that mean?? What does it do??
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  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    multiplies your shields hps
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  • cosmoscolacosmoscola Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    dalnar83 wrote: »
    multiplies your shields hps

    To what degree...?? 0,6 and 1,5 represents what??
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    It represents a multiplier. A ship with a 0.6 will have 60% of the shields that one with 1.0 does, and one with 1.5 will have 50% more.

    It's not a straight multiplier of what you see in a shield's tooltip, since there's also other factors like skills involved and not just the ship's multiplier, but everything else kept equal it works that way.
  • kylesal24kylesal24 Member Posts: 312
    edited August 2012
    What it means is that if you look at a Shield it will tell you how many hit points. take mine for example, 8,000 is what it is, but I use a carrier which is a sci. ship so I have 1.2 shield. Meaning that my shields are at 9,600 with no other bonuses. Normally I have 15,000 shields with bonuses. It really just means shield hit points # x multiplier = your ships shield hit points with no other bonuses.
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  • pottsey5gpottsey5g Member Posts: 4,253 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    shield modifiers boost both shield hitpoints and shield regen. Well unless the shield modifiers is below 1.0 then you lose shield hitpoints and lose shield regen.
  • ghyudtghyudt Member Posts: 1,112 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    So, what the modifier does is add or subtract from BASE shields? Not from BOOSTED shields? As in, a ship with 5000 base shields plus a 1.15 multiplier has 5750 shields, then the boosts are added?
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,965 Arc User
    edited October 2013
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  • darthgranicdarthgranic Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Necro or not this is useful information. I wish there was a sticky by the system designers explaining stats in detail.
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