It resists Laser, Photon and Pulse weapons. With the exception of the high level GMG and BH weapons, those types are mostly low level (shield strength has little bearing on Pulse weapons anyway). In outer systems, you're much more likely to run across Tachyon and Neutron weapons. These give Positron shields an extra 20% protection which brings them up to the same level. Particle weapons aren't too rare either, so the same can hold for Molecular shields

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't"

That sounds right

I'd better leave them alone then. I don't want the game to become unbalanced.
Thank you.

EDIT:
On the other hand, the whole idea with the shields weaknesses gets kinda screwed this way... No, I will probably set the graviton shield down and put the higher lvl graviton shields for sale somewhere.

But thanks anyway

Edited by - Dugge Dank on 4/23/2004 10:37:36 AM

Well if you look in weaponmoddb.ini you can set how effective each weapon is against each type of shield, if you want to try balancing it out.

I've already changed the weaponmoddb.ini, I just boosted the protection/weakness to 50% because I wanted the shields to actually make a difference.
And I got what I wanted for sure.
Lvl 4 Defenders are now almost completely impossible to kill in a Starflier with 3 starbeams, while the lvl 4 bountyhunters were soo easy to take down. All thanks to graviton or molecular shields.
But I bought myself a Xeno Scorpion and tried a Navy killing mission and voila, they went down to managable difficulty.

But now I'm wondering about the graviton shields, because there's no reason to buy a lvl 2 molecular shield from the rogues in the beginning of the game (with opensp). The lvl1 graviton shield is actually a little better than the lvl2 molecular.

If no one has another reason than Darkstones to the Graviton power I think I'll actually set the shields to have the same level. If you're going out into the borderworlds, you just get yourself a positron or molecular shield.

AND I guess the highest lvl graviton shields are not for sale because they were too powerful, and for the fact that no faction that uses graviton shields has ships that can use so high level shields.