military shield boosters on cobra mk3

bigmike20vt · Post by **bigmike20vt** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:19 pm

hi

i have been looking all over for one of these but am stuffed if i can find one.

what system is the best to bag one in G1?

i am fairly hard anyway now but that would be the cherry on the icing on the cake.
cheers

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:06 am

The Military Shield Enhancement is available at TL 13+, but I believe that you need to have the Shield Boosters fitted first.
There are ten TL 13+ systems in G1.

Loxley · Post by **Loxley** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:06 am

I think you need a system of tech level 13 or higher to find these. I'm not to good at Oolite geography myself but the wiki has some star charts you could consult to find a suitable place. Navy stations and seedy space bars (both oxp) also sell these but you will have to pay a premium.

Edit to add: damn ninja'd

snork · Post by **snork** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:41 am

If you are willing to change ships, you can look out for a cobra3 with military enhancement for sale.
I just started looking into purchasing another ship (still too expensive for me) and sometimes saw cobra3 with naval shields or naval engine.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:54 am

El Viejo wrote:
... but I believe that you need to have the Shield Boosters fitted first.

Nope. Both items are independent of each other.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:39 pm

Oh well, I got it wrong again.
It doesn't pay to read the Wiki... that states that it requires the boosters:

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Milita ... t#Overview

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:58 pm

Not really, it has the commas in the right place to be interpreted as 'this will boost your shields even more - along with the Shield enhancement and normal shields'. I think it could have been written more clearly though.

Corny · Post by **Corny** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:08 am

Commas? It says clearly "requires: Shield Boosters"!

Post by **Eric Walch** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:15 pm

El Viejo wrote:
The Military Shield Enhancement is available at TL 13+, but I believe that you need to have the Shield Boosters fitted first.
There are ten TL 13+ systems in G1.

Corrected both things on the wiki now.
It does not require any other equipment.

And 13+ it not fully correct. It is always available at 14+ systems but at level 13 only at certain days. Just try it. It is predictable as it is always the same day of the week. (Mondays?) But timing the arrival to be at a certain day can be quite hard, so I usually aim for the system with the more sure availability.

The Oolite reference sheet writes 14+

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:11 pm

I believe Tianave (The Pulsar system) is TL 13 and I know there's a bunch of high TL systems near it of which at least one is. So take a holiday, see the Pulsar and get the upgrades all at the same time.

It's in the top right of G1.

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:06 pm

Corny wrote:
Commas? It says clearly "requires: Shield Boosters"!

Oh yeah, I was only looking at the overview. More caffeine methinks.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:44 pm

Eric Walch wrote:
Corrected both things on the wiki now.
It does not require any other equipment.

It is always available at 14+ systems but at level 13 only at certain days. Just try it. It is predictable as it is always the same day of the week. (Mondays?) But timing the arrival to be at a certain day can be quite hard, so I usually aim for the system with the more sure availability.

The Oolite reference sheet writes 14+

Thanks for updating the Wiki Eric, but I think that the overview is still ambiguous.
It’s been quite a long while since I installed the MSE, but I have this vague nagging memory that it didn’t work properly unless
the Shield Boosters were also in place. Was it different on earlier versions of Oolite, hence the original entry on the Wiki?
Or is this old man’s memory playing tricks again? Hey-Ho!

That’s an interesting fact regarding the uncertain availability of the MSE at TL 13’s… I like quirks of that sort.

Regards