If they did this then shields should also make you demob immune.

And why stop at just demob? How about ECM and Suppression as well. Drainers and neuts certaintly as well.

I think that an aggressive act like firing a weapon and demobilization should not be allowed while the shield is activated.

Add the demob to "not allowed" list along with the other current aggressive acts on the list.

That is all

Good Choice

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You do not change game mechanics to fit lore. You change lore to fit game mechanics.

I don't like to put logic into game, when game mechanic needs to be balanced, because game mechanics has its own logic. And therefore it is ok to have laser producing any damage and shields blocking all "damage" but allowing all other waves passing through.

I believe atm we have a quite worse problem with the fact, that you can stop shield, fire after shield stops and start again within factions of a second. As the shield bearer gets a countdown, he is able to react, while his opponent has nearly no chance to hit the slot when shield is down.

In fact the question if laserbeam is wave or partical is at the moment controverse discussed by scientists.
To the kinectic damage, it is in "reality" introduced by vaporising the upper layer of the material that is hit by laser ("laser ablation").

What always got me about Star trek was the obvious issue that there's some type of energy blast coming in and it hits the ship because the captain didn't order the shields up. The computer is constantly scanning and could have easily raised shields automatically ... but it builds drama. So theatrics trumps common sense and technology, but at least they were consistent in thier cannon (even if it wasn't what you would expect from advanced cultures). While there's probably something about having a 'human' in the command loop, that doesn't make a lot of sense considering all the technology that they use daily under computer control; for instance the replicator and teleporter, both of which are much more complicated and life threatening then 'raising sheilds'. Specifically, people put thier lives into the hands of complex computer functions on a daily basis, but then trick themselves into having a sense of control over technology by putting themselves into the loop. And yes there could be situations where the captain doesn't want the sheilds up, but those times would be the exception, and it would make more sense to order 'over-rides' for those situations... but its TV, so

i have to agree with trig here they work well atm you get a trade off for defense but no damage offence.

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

shields got changed to enable that. they got nerfed back a bit to make it harder (5s cycletime instead of 2s)
so with macro i could actually use shields on my seth... but the shield bonus of the seth was removed

I use macros with my shield tank (well, you could call it that but I just binded both KEY_DOWN and KEY_UP so it fires then raises shields in 1 button press but that technically causes 2 events to be sent) and they work quite well, but I beleive it is a ballanced mechanic as I sacrifice a HUGE amount of my already small DPS doing this.

Goffer, even perfectly managing your shots / cycle, you can lose a large % of dps still doing this.

Say your cycle time is 8s, you lose 3s of DPS on average every cycle. 3/8 = 37.5% DPS loss

That is IF you can hit your enemy in the small window, and if you leave your shields down too long it further reduces DPS and increases vulnerability.

If you use shield you are invulnerable in 1on1 until you meet someone with neuter (which is no common PvP fit).
And even simple neut equipment is not enough to crack up a good shielded Trojar.

Do you think that it should be ok to be invulnerable against 95% of PVP setup by sacrifying less than 40% of dps but still having enough dps to kill most bots in reasonable time?

In most setups in PO it is worth to sacrify some dps and equip something else instead (range/demob/ECM/ECCM/...). Your major "loss" of dps is situational when having shields most time up. In case you need more dps, but can afford to risk a hit you just let shields down and have normal dps.

This is *** Hilarious.

They basically took ERP's out of the game, after some butt hurt idiots couldn't kill them, and now you want shields to STAY THE SAME?

Logic much?

Saying its "properly balanced" is a farce at best.

I don't have a solution to the shield Imba, but it HAS to be looked at, in the most serious manner.

To ignore will just make people leave the game faster.

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Everything is imbalanced that why it's 'balanced'.