Have we considered having different types of shields that protect better, like a shield that is more tuned towards ballistic damage than energy damage? Or are there ways to adjust shield modulation to help protect against certain damage types?

It's something that I think is really open to us at the moment. We have been discussing this this week, actually. I think some of us are more expecting that we'll go down the road of shields and armor that can be switched in and out that will have different resistances to different damage types. We have different damage types in the weapons already. We need to be making sure that the defensive side can be alternated in the same way. You can change your loadout for different weapons to do different damage types; you'd be able to do the same to counter on the defensive side.

It's no good just stacking all the goodies on the offensive side without providing at least a fair set of tools on the defensive side.

Yeah, that's the gameplay we want. I think everyone would like to see it that way. So yeah, we've been talking about that a lot.

And at the moment on all the shields, you do have some ability to sort of tune it. So you can move the faces around and that does have a significant effect. You can do shield hardening, which, as the name implies, does harden the shields and really does reduce the amount of damage coming through. So if you get into a combat situation and you go, I'm seriously outgunned here, I need to get out of here, you can just start flying in the opposite direction, punt all your shields to your back face, harden it, and it will significantly increase the amount of time it takes for those shots to come through your shields, to give you the time to quantum out of there or do other things.