a "shielding" bot would be a cool type of support, and could be used many different ways, but simple having a giant impenetrable dome would be way too OP.

Eh it sounds enticing at first, but it would be ridiculously hard to balance.

1. You cant shoot through it like all shields, but there would NEED to be a cooldown so you cant just micro the shield and the enemy would have no chance at shooting when it goes down.  It would be like "shield going down in 3-2-1 fire.  shields up again"

2. They just dip in and out of the shield and pretty much guarantee they wont get hit.

3. Anyone that comes within the shield can shoot at anyone else inside of it?  Kinda like the star wars shield bubble thing.

4. Balancing the ratio.  If its 1 bot operating this it would nee stupidly high ratio to absorb damage for a whole squad, or need 5 people energy transfering it constantly.  It will likely be either way to easy or way too hard to keep up and I dont trust the devs to balance that correctly.

5. Range.  Too small and you just promote blobbing even more.  Too big and the shield user doesnt have to go anywhere near the front line to protect the group.  It would have to be around 200m to reflect the remote repairer range.

Overall just no.  I dont think it would add any interesting mechanics to pvp and would just be imba for a long time.

As if we need anything to encourage more blobbing up on the battlefield......

I think of the shield walls ala global agenda.  It blocks fire on both sides and is only a wall so it may benefit your enemy if you deploy it badly.

And deployable turrets ,gosh...

If your dreams weren't already filled with robot jet pack battles then your life has been a waste until now.

a balanced and a simple solution for such a shield, just make it prevent any sort of locks.

You want to huddle under it? Sure, but you ain't getting rr-help or using ewar on the enemy (and neither will they ewar you)

Right... the blob bois what a more effective way to protect their blob from being engaged....

Rather than shields that blobs can huddle behind them, which forces an attacker to approach them close range (within the shields) to engage, learn to PVP effectively as a mobile group, utilize the terrain, and actually have to use tactics during an engagement.

I think this video shows why Adom wants a shield generator - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ewK9qYLZU

This video shows what happens when you DO USE TACTICS.  If you have a shielded area, that you have to enter to engage, it eliminates ranged combat, and allows a group to blob up safely at one point, without consequences.