Rizzo
Well-Known Member
- Submission URL
- https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=stararmy:equipment:ke-m2-p2904_barrier_shield_module
- Submission Faction(s)
- Yamatai (except Elysia)
- Submission Terms
- I agree
There's really not anything big wrong with this one except OMG that DRv2 to v3 conversion was far out! It was listed as SP 10~15 is Tier 10, Light Starship! Why the heck don't we just slap that bad boy on literally EVERY SINGLE MINDY? Like, no need to have small ships shielded anymore. Just mindys with these barrier shields taped to the hull! LOL.
Obviously this is not what the author had in mind, that conversion is just bad. Clearly what we have here is the biggest shield generator a suit of power armor can carry without having a box the size of a crate engine on it's back. This is, after all, something that fits between the M2-2D's stowed 50mm shoulder cannons, after all. The biggest PAs are coming in at T6 so that's where I put this at. A standard Mindy with charged barrier can tank a single T5 shot before needing to take cover and recharge. That saves you against an ASBR shot. At T6 you can tank 4 shots from the ASBR. Not freaking funny now! This would remain consistent with the story about 2 Mindys with this fighting a squad of Lamias and winning.
This is an unfair advantage on it's surface but the original author has 2 drawbacks that seemed to indicate a limitation to prevent abuse. First, if this shield goes down it takes 5 seconds to recharge. DRv3 indicates barriers recharge 50% in 10 to 15 seconds. Naturally this submission is set to recharge too fast but seeing as almost all other PA shields have no recharge even listed this indicates to me a period of vulnerability was intended, thus explaining WHY this is not standard issue on every single M2-4. By giving this a 30 second period for activation and reactivation it essential makes a Mindy with this part remarkably durable but remarkably vulnerable if soldier is careless.
Additionally, power usage was addressed as suffering when this is in use. Being able to take 4 times the punishment of all other PA in it's weight class is an incredible feat of engineering. It also requires the power consumption that requires a much larger suit. The original author states the "forearm projectors" recharges at half the speed when this barrier is active. These forearms have been and continue to be used to power weapons like the Aether Beam Saber Rifle. It can be inferred that any weapon powered by a suit that is already running this barrier is going to have half recharge on suit powered weapons.
Now there is a huge loophole that needs to be addressed. Suppose a player has a Mindy with 4 capacitors which recharge systems immediately.. and this barrier... they are now unkillable!
Therefore, the SAoY would only EVER run that exact configuration and just be invincible at all times!
I have worked in a counter already. If we apply the scaling of the rule of 8 from Weapon Limitations which is inspired from and built around DRv3 and consider that a single capacitor can instantly recharge a T4 barrier we could assume the exponential scaling upwards would require 2 for a T5 barrier and 4 for a T6. I'm tempted to say that the Mindy can only use the capacitor for its own on-board T4 barrier BUT those capacitors instantly recharge a dorsal mounted teleporter. Soooo it would still be possible for each capacitor to recharge the barrier by 25% based on established lore and it would be unfair to take that away from a player that has built his ENTIRE suit around being unreasonably bulletproof.
With that I present the updated Ke-M2-P2904 Barrier Shield Module.
Please ignore the red links as those are being caused by an error I cannot figure out. To maintain change log history the WIP page is only here to present the changes planned for the existing page and they work on the current Barrier page.
Obviously this is not what the author had in mind, that conversion is just bad. Clearly what we have here is the biggest shield generator a suit of power armor can carry without having a box the size of a crate engine on it's back. This is, after all, something that fits between the M2-2D's stowed 50mm shoulder cannons, after all. The biggest PAs are coming in at T6 so that's where I put this at. A standard Mindy with charged barrier can tank a single T5 shot before needing to take cover and recharge. That saves you against an ASBR shot. At T6 you can tank 4 shots from the ASBR. Not freaking funny now! This would remain consistent with the story about 2 Mindys with this fighting a squad of Lamias and winning.
This is an unfair advantage on it's surface but the original author has 2 drawbacks that seemed to indicate a limitation to prevent abuse. First, if this shield goes down it takes 5 seconds to recharge. DRv3 indicates barriers recharge 50% in 10 to 15 seconds. Naturally this submission is set to recharge too fast but seeing as almost all other PA shields have no recharge even listed this indicates to me a period of vulnerability was intended, thus explaining WHY this is not standard issue on every single M2-4. By giving this a 30 second period for activation and reactivation it essential makes a Mindy with this part remarkably durable but remarkably vulnerable if soldier is careless.
Additionally, power usage was addressed as suffering when this is in use. Being able to take 4 times the punishment of all other PA in it's weight class is an incredible feat of engineering. It also requires the power consumption that requires a much larger suit. The original author states the "forearm projectors" recharges at half the speed when this barrier is active. These forearms have been and continue to be used to power weapons like the Aether Beam Saber Rifle. It can be inferred that any weapon powered by a suit that is already running this barrier is going to have half recharge on suit powered weapons.
Now there is a huge loophole that needs to be addressed. Suppose a player has a Mindy with 4 capacitors which recharge systems immediately.. and this barrier... they are now unkillable!
Therefore, the SAoY would only EVER run that exact configuration and just be invincible at all times!
I have worked in a counter already. If we apply the scaling of the rule of 8 from Weapon Limitations which is inspired from and built around DRv3 and consider that a single capacitor can instantly recharge a T4 barrier we could assume the exponential scaling upwards would require 2 for a T5 barrier and 4 for a T6. I'm tempted to say that the Mindy can only use the capacitor for its own on-board T4 barrier BUT those capacitors instantly recharge a dorsal mounted teleporter. Soooo it would still be possible for each capacitor to recharge the barrier by 25% based on established lore and it would be unfair to take that away from a player that has built his ENTIRE suit around being unreasonably bulletproof.
With that I present the updated Ke-M2-P2904 Barrier Shield Module.
Please ignore the red links as those are being caused by an error I cannot figure out. To maintain change log history the WIP page is only here to present the changes planned for the existing page and they work on the current Barrier page.