Can we talk about Shield drones?

[Twinge]

You can't, no - changing that number has no effect sadly. The actual cooldown depends on how many Zoltan Shield layers you already have: the first pop is around 8 seconds, but if you already have 4 layers that 5th one takes closer to 20 seconds.

[WhiteWeasel]

You can't, no - changing that number has no effect sadly. The actual cooldown depends on how many Zoltan Shield layers you already have: the first pop is around 8 seconds, but if you already have 4 layers that 5th one takes closer to 20 seconds.

Oh. Well then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge-08FPD6LA

[WhiteWeasel]

Yeah, shield drones are pretty crap. You need two of them to be marginally effective and the protection they provide is intermittent at best. They are just too damn slow.

[zaphod_]

The only place I can see the Shield Overcharged bearing any use at all is if you have two of them, as well as a Zoltan Shield in the first place. But even then, having defense drones instead would be infinitely more effective.

At this point I just regard them as free scrap.

[replicamerchant1]

Hello,
I really like it . I was in search of stuff like this. I really appreciate your effort. keep posting like this.

Thank you
Ana

[DustArma]

Playing with the layout A of the stealth cruiser I found a really good use for shield drones, on level 2/3 cloaking the shield drone has enough time for at least 2 zoltan shield points, and if your ship has a high enough evasion and shields this will, most times, let you survive unscathed until the cloaking cooldown is over.