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Shields and Sabotage

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Lyell Wolf
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-08-13 14:07:35 UTC
From what I understand, shields are based off an energy source and emit a field around the object that protects it from projectiles. Armor is plates infused with nanites that also deflect incoming damage and repairs itself using the nanites.

Since shields rely on an external source to work, wouldn't they would be slightly more prone to sabotage than armor would be? Disrupt the energy to the shields and they turn off. Destroy the shield unit in the ship and they turn off. Armor is just metal plates infused with what makes them really special, nanites/other technically advanced things. It would be much harder to sabotage something attached to the ship in such a manner.

So the question is would the above statements be true to some extent?

This Is not taking into account active armor/shield modules. It's just an overall outlook on the critical weaknesses of shields V.S. Armor.
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-08-13 14:13:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Stitcher
the Malkalen catastrophe was only made possible by shield sabotage, it's true.

I think it's assumed that in the case of a spaceship under capsuleer command, sabotaging the shields would be effectively impossible - they'd notice, shut you out, vent you into space, reboot them or switch to a backup system within seconds. Besides, it's harder to do anything to the outside of a spaceship in flight than it is to do it to the outside of a space station with a surface area the size of several large cities.

They may be more potentially sabotageable than armour, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's actually easy, or even possible except with superhuman planning, suicidal daring, and extreme good luck.

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CCP Falcon
#3 - 2013-08-13 14:22:00 UTC

Sabotage the nano pumps of an armor repair system and you get basically the same effect, so it's six and two threes, really.

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Lyell Wolf
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-08-13 14:59:58 UTC
CCP Falcon wrote:

Sabotage the nano pumps of an armor repair system and you get basically the same effect, so it's six and two threes, really.

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Didn't realize the armors nanites were fed by a nano pump much like a shields energy is. Thanks for the Post Falcon!
Harvey James
The Sengoku Legacy
#5 - 2013-08-13 16:26:55 UTC
mm.. makes you wonder if you should be able to neut shields mm...

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Lyell Wolf
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-08-13 17:32:04 UTC
Harvey James wrote:
mm.. makes you wonder if you should be able to neut shields mm...


When you neut a ship you take the capacitor from the Energy of the ship. It's been accepted that though shields run off energy, like a battery, they use a separate module that may not be connected to the energy grid of the ship. It merely projects a field around the ship using energy stored within the shield unit.
Esna Pitoojee
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#7 - 2013-08-13 22:49:11 UTC
Lyell Wolf wrote:
CCP Falcon wrote:

Sabotage the nano pumps of an armor repair system and you get basically the same effect, so it's six and two threes, really.

Smile



Didn't realize the armors nanites were fed by a nano pump much like a shields energy is. Thanks for the Post Falcon!


Mmm-hmm. Armor in EVE is not mere homogenous plates of a single material, but a multilayered composite of the prime armor material, a network of sensors to determine armor status (since looking out the window usually isn't an option), various resistant membranes and secondary layers, and actively pumped tubes of nanite solutions and/or coolant.
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#8 - 2013-08-14 03:46:13 UTC
Isn't EM damage so effective against shields (in the absence of specific EM hardeners) for this exact reason?

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CCP Falcon
#9 - 2013-08-14 10:00:49 UTC
Sabriz Adoudel wrote:
Isn't EM damage so effective against shields (in the absence of specific EM hardeners) for this exact reason?


Nailed it Smile

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