Shield Tech

Shield Tech allows your ships to take more punishment in battle. Each level researched will increase the shields on your ships and defenses by 10%.

Costs and Effect

Level	Ore	Crystal	Hydrogen	Shields Boost
1	200	600	0	10%
2	400	1,200	0	20%
3	800	2,400	0	30%
4	1,600	4,800	0	40%
5	3,200	9,600	0	50%
6	6,400	19,200	0	60%
7	12,800	38,400	0	70%
8	25,600	76,800	0	80%
9	51,200	153,600	0	90%
10	102,400	307,200	0	100%
11	204,800	614,400	0	110%
12	409,600	1,228,800	0	120%

* Boost is a percentage of the base Shields rating. Further upgrades are possible. With each level the costs double and the effect increases by 10%.

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Ineffectiveness rule: Any attack that does less than 1% of the maximum shielding capacity of the target is absorbed with no effect on the target. As an example, The Artemis Class has a base attack of 50. The Large Decoy has a base shielding of 10,000. Since 50/10,000 = 0.005 (one half of one percent), this means an Artemis could never damage a Large Decoy that still has its shield even partially up. Note: this rule works off the base rating of the ship or defense's shields and weaponry, not the research-enhanced ratings. So the relative weapons research and shield research levels of the attacker and defender are irrelevant to the matter.

Dependencies

Requires

• Energy Tech (Level 3)
• Research Lab (Level 6)

Required For

• Gauss Cannon (Level 1)
• Decoy (Level 2)
• Dionysus Class (Level 2)
• FTL Tech (level 5)
• Large Decoy (Level 6)
• Hephaestus Class (Level 12)

See Also

• Shield Rating
• Research Lab
• Weapons Tech
• Armor Tech