SV shield

[Tankingit3]

So I think I screwed up. I built a Tier 2 SV from Factory but it did not have a shield. I added one but couldn't figure out how to power so I took it off. Somehow doing that dropped my CPU to Tier 1 and there is no Tier 2 extender. So am I just screwed and how do you power the shield?

[seven]

Removing the shield should not have changed your CPU Tier level, unless you accidentally removed the T2 extender. I don't think Tier 2 is enough for a shield.

To power a shield you need a pentaxid tank, with refined pentaxid, and sufficient generator power to run it.

Edit: Yeah, a shield uses 16,300 CPU and Tier 2 is only 15,000 total. You need Tier 3.

[L37]

Technically you can overcome inefficiency created by using more CPU than you have by adding whole bunch of generators, and to a degree such T2 CPU + Shield SV-s are possible, just have to be VERY careful with the fact that generators use CPU too, and they are heavy, so it snowballs really fast.

[Tankingit3]

Thanks for the responses...I can't find a SV T2 extender in the advanced constructor so I guess I can't increase CPU poser that way.

[Tankingit3]

Disregard last question ....I'm an idiot and forgot to unlock in tech tree....

[I am Goot]

The shield component is level 7, so by rights it should be useable by level 7... but as said, it costs more than the CPU on a SV built at that level to accommodate it, unless you somehow just have a shield generator attached to a cockpit.

Yet another concept by an inept programming team introduced into the game without properly implementing it.... how long ago was CPU and shields introduced..... no excuse.

If you need higher end CPU extension to use it, it should be a higher level technology, simple as