Well, thats because one batt is 300 (if memory serves) shield points. Depending on your shield, you may need more then one batt to bring you back to full.

Thats why, the better shield you can equip the more batts you can hold.

For example, if you have a shield of 1000, you'd need 4 batts to bring yourself back to full strenght.

Hope that helped.

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A battery only recharges a certain amount of shield power... So if there is more to fill out it takes more batteries in one drain!

What the chief said.

Yes, 300 points would be correct. or was it 500.
same goes for bots.

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ok that wouild make sence. Now..how bout that second question?? 11lvl player, 7lvl max equipment for ship, won't let me use lvl 6 guns? By the way thanks for those quick replys.

I'm guessing that your lvl isn't high enough or that your lvl7 slot is being used by a lvl 6 or less gun.

ahhhhhhh yes...thats it. Never really saw that before I'm a fool

thanks

The more I play, the more I wish there was a feature to use only one battery at a time...much better to kick-start a downed shield and have it recharge itself than to waste so many batteries getting it all the way back up.

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I wish the shield bats had more than just 300 points.

Also, pressing shield bat button should only use the exact amount of points needed to recharge, leaving a battery with something like 150 points out of 300, only partly used.

agh, just make sure you don't need bats, like I do (SP only though )

The Sabre can hold 63 batteries, sure, sure... but with a level 10 shield, it takes 23 - yes, 23! batteries to refill the shield. Sucks, huh?

There's only two types of people who play Freelancer:
-Those who think the Sabre is the best ship;
-Those who are wrong.

Only people that are CRAP would want that.