Shielded World

[Dandy]

I just found one of these in the game and was wondering if I can do anything with them?

[Zi]

Yeah, found one in crystal system, surveyed a before and.. nothing!

[NixBoxDone]

The only shielded world I've ever done something with was the culmination of an event chain - maybe you don't have that chain yet or aren't far enough along, similar to finding the Cybrex home system without having all of the artefacts.

[Spirit]

nearly 1000 hours of gameplay and never found a shielded world ...

[Blaze]

be careful tho as when you do the event to bring the shield down a few enemies spawn so make sure you have you're fleet nearby to engage

[Dandy]

Ok ty

[Zurbaran]

If you found a Shielded World the leader of the sience ship has a chance to start a quest. The quest you get have a very risky chance to shut down the shield but beware that you have a fleet near the ship.

If you are unlucky you get 8 sience every month by using a sience station or if really unlucky nothing.

[Dandy]

Ah ok i got the 8 science a month :P

[nevinmcintyre01]

i got a fallen empirer leader from a shielded world and he was pretty bad ass hahaha

[Zi]

Originally posted by nevinmcintyre01:

i got a fallen empirer leader from a shielded world and he was pretty bad ass hahaha

That was before Heinlein..

[Yang Xiao Long]

Never encountered one. I don't know much about them. Though in my opinion would be neat if there was a small chance they would become unshielded and pops out a new technologically advanced nation. Think like the Tau from 40k sort of, like an end-game crisis event. That would be kinda neat.

[N8mahr]

The shielded world at the end of the event chain in my current game offered me a 5 percent research bonus if I changed my ethics to xenophile and pacifist. I politely declined ;)

[Yang Xiao Long]

Originally posted by N8mahr:

The shielded world at the end of the event chain in my current game offered me a 5 percent research bonus if I changed my ethics to xenophile and pacifist. I politely declined ;)

Did they then conquer and purge your entire empire and your species for the 'greater good' ?

[N8mahr]

No, he was the last survivor of a pacifist race who had been exterminated by invaders thousands of years before.
He just said something like "What a shame, I thought you were like us."
My people got a 5% percent happiness bonus in exchange, because they were happy for not having to become useless pacifists :D

[Zuul]

I've had a shielded world give me a pile of Fallen Empire ships before. Flavor text was something along the lines that they'd mothballed a bunch of ships on it and then forgotten how to bring down the shield.