Re: Kinetic Shields

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> 
> At 12:08 2001-06-06 -0700, you wrote:
> >Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> >
> > > The various screen-skippers were all balanced around the fact that
they
> > > aren't degraded by screens, so if your "shield" degrades them by
the same
> > > percentage at the same cost as it does beams you effectively make
all
> > > screen-skipping weapons useless :-(
> >
> >You just increase the cost propotionally.
> 
> You have to increase the cost of *all screen-degraded weapons* in
> proportion to their normal degrading by screens for this to work...
which
> means that ithe basic FT screens become unbalanced instead :-/

Not of the weapons, the kinetic screen

Jaime