Well you also run into an issue where lower damage per shot weapons would have a more difficult time stopping regen if threshold is on a per bullet. And it should never be "Oh well, the system should be only really effective against this race of weapon". The reason it works with vehicles is because damage from smallarms is greatly reduced so the difference in damage per bullet is effectively less pronounced.

Additionally DPS is a dangerous approach to, because as Cat pointed out, that assumes optimal conditions. A quick wiggle wiggle shield suit could effectively be regenerating constantly because the incoming DPS is never sustainable high enough to break regen. Additionally some lower DPS weapons like Mass Driver would likely be unable to break shield regen, even with perfect accuracy.

You might have the approach it more from a "the suit can take an amount of damage equal to f(shield_regen_rate) with a period of time equal to f(shield_recharge_delay) to break shield regen" which is more work and more core-code, so likely not going to happen.

Ok so shield damage threshold gets implemented, we putting an armor damage threshold on too? It only seems fair.

You're still going to run into issues where weapons with more damage per bullet effectively have a much larger range when it comes to breaking shield regen because they can afford more falloff and subsiquently more damage lost per shot, than a smaller damage round.

Please cite the source, I am pretty sure I would have noticed this sometime over the last 4-5 years.

I wrote a pretty lengthy explanation earlier in the thread outlining my concerns.

The hilarious thing you all forget is that damage mods negate the disadvantage of regen not breaking outside optimal. Skills also would affect this.

Shield regen should break when the shields hace lost more than 20-25% capacity.

If the reason is to make it "like eve" and you want the regen to continue while being pinged then yeah. Obviously I am not suggesting changing anything on the shields my response was in merely an illustration of how passive regen works in Eve not a description of how I want things to be. I personally don't like sniffing glue either though.

No we shouldn't balance for 1v1, there are rare 1v1s in this game unless you go hide somewhere away from the objectives, then someone will find you. Oh but how about 5v5 lets balance for that or better yet 5v1. This game is more blobby than Eve and it makes no sense why you would want 5 ppl each getting tagged by one stray bullet from an smg at mid range to regenerate their shields as if it were nothing.

Incoming DPS on a lone gunman, would obliterate him rather quickly with any rifles. How about we look at a case where a sniper is keeping your squad pinned down and while separately the incoming dps at long range from your rifles will likely not be enough to take him down through his shields with your proposal, 6 people shooting, at range, at him likely wouldn't either.

You ask for arguments with 1v1? Player A is using an SMG Player B has an AR and the engagement is mid range at the edge of the SMG's engagement range. I think you know where I'm going with this but, Player A bullet hoses Player B, all shots land on target. Player B's shields don't dip at all. Player B line's up his shots, looks around for snipers then pulls the trigger sending a short burst into Player A's head. We all know who the winner in that engagement is.

I see no reason to change this, and btw you are asking them to bring back a CB feature that was tested and proved to be OP even with tuning. It was difficult to kill anyone using any sort of damage threshold, battles were lasting "too long" and there were not enough tears on the forums.

This might have been brought up already, but what if shield mechanics were changed to be like EVE?

Example:

In Eve, shields regen constantly, but at low amounts (EX 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) the speed of which can be varied by modules, and if the shield is under a certain threshold, I forget if it is 0% or 25%.

I think this would be alot better than the current Dust mechanics.

I certainly cannot claim to know how the game is coded, however I would like to point out that the check of efficiency rating between attacker and defender is already done after collision, and used for damage application. It would be a matter of using that % value to determine whether the hit deserves to shut off shield regen or not.

What I mean is that there is a very good chance that it won't add extra load, only ccp can answer for certain.