Give us Shields! Come on!

As for the Livestream where they explain in deatil... I can't be bothered to find it.

Agreed, they are rather technologically advanced. Why not go the whole hog.

There is a small, but significant difference between making some thing that makes sense, and something that is internally consistent. There are many aspects of PA that don't make sense, but so long as they all work together internally there isn't really a problem.

Try using this; https://forums.uberent.com/threads/live-stream-index-2-0-updated-03-21-2014.53345/

;p

Mike

Sorry, what are you saying? That Uber's vision is to not have shields? Cuz that's not really what I was asking...

Oh! that's okay then...

Lets go whole hog then.

EVERYONE POST YOUR CLICHE SCI-FI TROPES. TRY TO OUT-DO THE PREVIOUS POST.

Black whole generators.

Bacon Generators.

Honestly..

Wormholes.
Combining little robots into mega-robots.
Space-navies.

Maybe you should start a new thread.

Xenomorphs?

you guys are just making it evident which is the more mature party...

Don't blame me. If @bradaz85 wants to go whole hog in order to justify bubbles, then we have to follow it to the logical conclusion.

Or, we could not go whole hog, and limit things in game to only those that don't degrade game-play.

Actually, you're kind of wrong there.

Modern chess is partially derived from political commentary on medieval times.

Bishops are crooked, knights cut corners and ignore others, queens hold all the real political power and at the end of the day only the king surviving matters.

Okay, instead of trying to take the mickey here and de-railing the thread, why don't you try to explain why shields "degrade" gameplay as you say??

Okay, instead of trying to take the mickey here and de-railing the thread, why don't you try to explain why shields "degrade" gameplay as you say??

Sorry for double post, was trying to sort out the quote.

You've been going to the wrong church

I know it seems hard but at least try to come up with some arguments regarding shields. You know maybe we ll start to see why shields are a bad thing then!

As for trying to derail this thread in such an obvious manner - shame on you.

I think DeadStretch nailed it quite well with quoting Jon Mavor on why there won't be shields in PA 1.0.

Uber believes that it's more devtime than what it's worth when it comes to their development resources for PA, at least until they reach 1.0.

And while their roadmap is not set into stone, there are a great many pieces of functionality that have actually been promised for PA, like kickstarter stretch goals, and even more stuff that were just hinted at one way or the other. *cough* unit *cough* cannon

In the end it's not about the vision for the game, it's about development resources and priorities.

Either:

1. Supporting evidence is allowed, and thus brianpurkiss' poll is indicative of the people that visit the forum and are therefore passionate about the game.

Or:

2. Supporting evidence isn't allowed, and as such both of your hypocritical posts are completely irrelevant.

Pick one. Not both.