[quote=WilsonTurner] I was more or less cut off from everyone else.And duck, you ALWAYS cheat, in some form, as Darkwolf says. You used to have giant-ass planetary shields that block EVERYTHING. Like, half your workforce would have to be doing the most energy-producing thing possible to keep that shield up without fail.I just make it so that everyone can see it, instead of being the co-GM where I can do whatever I want without complaint. [/quote] Technically, you could keep an energy shield up for as long as you wanted to--provided you kept the power feed constant. It doesn't make any sense for a barrier of energy to somehow lose effectiveness as it endures hits. However, you might not be able to keep it up forever because of the heat this shield will be producing. If you can't penetrate a ship's armor or shields, you could always drive them into a vulnerable state by simply forcing them to fry themselves to death. [quote=AlienBastard] So can my guys, your point?Still if darkwolf's being honest than yeah that does sound a bit unfair to everyone else since when it came to my forcefields I figured you'd be able to overload them after enough hits although generating force fields on the fly seems rather wanky. [/quote] I don't see any difference between someone having a suit of powered armor that generates a shield and a random cartoon pony using its magical sparkle horn to generate a protective force field at a whim. So long as you're not combining the two or abusing one or the other, it should be fine. Imo, the parasites that somehow eat through dense alloys within seconds are infinitely worse.