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Shaostoul's: Force Fields

I suppose a custom component would give you more control over the final block weight. In my specific case, I am not really all that concerned with the block weight. I typically use these for hangar bays large enough to make depressurization a chore for 40+ air vents. For example, my current in process build is a fleet carrier. I'm using these for the main hangar, and I'm considering them for the auxiliary hangar. I suppose if I were to use them on smaller builds that have better thrust to weight ratios, less weight would be desirable. But, at the same time, the added weight makes for a greater design challenge. I have more thoughts on the matter but they spiral off into some kind of balance between both options. My final opinion, dealers choice.

How would you guys feel about a custom component for adding health? If I recall correctly block health is tied to the components used to construct it. Unless you'd be okay with just increasing current components to heavy armor values or whatever.

I would tend to agree with Vokun. Having HP no lower than a light armor block, up to that of heavy armor would balance excellently with the mods I tend to find myself using. In using this mod, I have not noticed any thruster damage occurring to the fields. But that doesn't mean much because I treat them like closed hangar doors and park at a distance that thrusters can not damage them.

I don't know. I don't have the programming knowledge to do so. Last I recall there are issues with recoloring transparent materials, cause they function differently than normal block textures. I've not seen a slider system done for transparent materials specifically (like glass.) Thruster and lights are different. Do you know of a mod with color changing transparent materials? The only method I'd know of is adding multiple colors is by creating a bunch of different colored blocks like I had to for this mod: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=307175879 I don't have the source blend files for the force fields, so I'd have to recreate the 3D models, which I'm disinclined to do.

Would be nice if it were made possible to change the colour of the forcefield, in some builds it would even be perfect if no colour at all.

Don't know if you can add a slider system for selecting colour, like done for thrusters(mod) and lights ?

That's a fair assessment! Thank you for sharing.

I cant say I've recently had any issues with thruster damage to the field, although i do remember from my last playthru that if you park a ship too close then fire the thrusters it can destroy it, but I dont even see my nano repair system kicking in when i fly thru it, so I'll assume its fine for a short traversal, which is how I use them anyway, if your ship is parked close enough to the field to cause thrust damage to it then its parked too close to the field, imo

You're one of the few actually saying anything, so as far as I'm concerned you have the stage. If anyone else had any recommendation I'd be happy to hear them. You're justification for heavy armor level health is sound. Do ship thrusters melt the force fields? If so that further reinforces the heavy armor level health.

We do intend on running a reinforcement mod, as we use weaponcore and some of that s*** hits HARD, although currently our only option is x5hp for anything vanilla, im hoping for a x2 version of it, then this would be at vanilla heavy armor values ideally for me, so it'd still take some work to get into but not as much as the reinforced hull, but I'm looking at all of this with slight personal bias based on my groups run/modlist.

So I've done some fresh testing today, as its been a while since i was in a proper fight.
I honestly think that they should have about the same HP as heavy armor.
Logically, this is most used for hangars, hangars should be at least floored in heavy armor to take the thrust of ships landing on it, at the very least it needs to be as strong as light armor, or maybe somewhere between the 2.

Gatling guns alone will shred the shield apart faster than you can sneeze with their current health, it needs to be raised one way or another, if you want to be conservative then go for light armor health, if you want these to be a viable "wall" without having to put hangar doors or blast doors over it or something then go for heavy armor, tho I'll still be doing this anyway regardless of how much more hp you give it, good habit to have