Is there any more detail you can go into about the "Phalanx Shield?"
TL;DRThe Phalanx Shield is meant to be powerful but even more skill-reliant than normal shields, rewarding players who manage it well, with shield management systems still being worked on.
It takes the current shield allocation gameplay to the extreme to make sure all your baby chickens make it safely to the dance floor. Well, in all seriousness, let us revisit the description of the Phalanx Shield in the post: "A point defense shield that provides a very strong but limited protective face, the Phalanx Shield was one of the reasons that the Prowler became such a significant defensive force when flown in a squad with shields deployed and its wide variety of defensive countermeasures at the ready." We have already indicated that maximizing your shield effectiveness for larger ships could be a dedicated job for a crewman. And some of you have also noticed in the lore that the Tevarin Phalanx shield has been depicted as being quite effective even against the UPE's technologically superior weapons technology of the time, so it's quite powerful if you use it well; but therein lies the rub - if you're not managing it, you're not using it well. We are still working on shield management systems in general, but that's the goal - the Tevarin style Phalanx Shield is intended to be on the high end of rewarding player skill in shield management, but be even more skill-reliant than 'normal' shields.