After you get to the point of being able to recharge faster than NPCs can damage you, is there a reason to add more?

The less shields you have the less likely a gemini is going to kill you, since the damage needed with become closer to the minimum need to attack. So is there a reason to even add shields?

Yup.

Bases. Also, it would be nice to theoretically recharge faster than people can hit you too

Basing?

Edit: ninja'd by Golgotha...

Fluffy, what did shields ever do to you?

Honestly is that it? I still would add hull, so the rate of my duration for using restoers/nanos would still go up just at 66% as fast. But even now I rarely get into my hull. I can't remember the last time I used more than 5 nanos/restorers in a base battle.

Chaostatic Inhibitor completely eliminates that possibility.

It's no worse a reason than your reasoning for stopping shield increase. "Because I don't want to self disable in PvP." Is that really an issue? You have to repair at some point anyway if that's a concern, why wouldn't you just oh I dunno, pay attention to the "Hull Remaining" stat that shows up every time you click attack? I mean, there has to be some reason why Dan coded that into the display. A smart math guy like you should be able to figure out what 10% of your total HP is and stop clicking before you get there.

In my opinion, the advantages of having more shields (for base battles, defensive PvP, high-end elite/boss NPCs) far outweigh the minor disadvantage of increased Gemini effectiveness.

I will keep adding as much shield as I can. It helps everywhere except geminis and gammacrons and there its kinda moot since it will take the same amount of hits to deplete hull and shields fully regardless of the actual value.

Preventing a self disable can be handled by repairing sooner.
Since gammacrons came out I have been PVPing by not buffing hull and buffing shields (they're about even then) and refilling shields when depleted. My hull only acts as a buffer for the gammacron.

Some people value their disables more than 5-50 energy/repair. Losing the ability to self disable imo is good thing.

I usually can catch the geminis but there are those times when 2-3 hits trigger them in a row and the extra damage from their cannons just puts you below and it is hard to stop when I click too fast.



I do the exact same

Well that will happen with auto clickers!!

I think i used kill my self at least 2 times durung a pvp run. But not going to stop me from adding shields. i just started stopping short. waist more restored and nanons .but i dont want to stop adding.

Repair Nanodrones (Uses Left: 2199)
Shield Restorer (Uses Left: 1766)
I'm sure you've got them to waste...

Yes i do. so its no real issue.