Regarding the new shield system, mainly concerning the Retaliator, will the Retaliator really only have class three "Aurora shields" or do bigger ships work differently?asked by TheGekkie

So, the Retaliator will have bigger shields.

Huzzah!

Yes, what they are? That's still being worked out and that's something we won't really be able to iron out until we get that ship closer to flyable which means we need multicrew in first but it's definitely going to have shields and armour appropriate for a frontline bomber ship. So, it was advertised as that role so we don't want to hamstring it that much. One thing it may also have though is a little bit more armour on it versus max shields but then again we can't say for sure until it's flyable... but it will be bigger than a size three like an Aurora has.

We always tune towards our initial intent - where does this fit in the 'Verse? - and part of the complicating aspect here is that we are going through here and we are unifying all of our systems. We've done a lot of work to build up what our different stats are, how things should affect the different performance and behaviours of our ships, and now with that context how do we make all these unique objects not quite so unique so that we can compare things more effectively. That's coming along really well and hopefully we'll be able to clear that up really soon.

That's going to be a nice change once we get it all set up.