You are using the wrong color!

But yea I agree with paxx, I have noticed this and it should be fixed asap.

My personal suspicion is that the "random" loss of charging is related to the prioritized charging code, so that your shield charging gets turned off if you're at any negative elec. 99% of the time I can get full shield charging if I don't shoot, and then lose all but my shield charger's effect if I start shooting again.

I use shield salvations when doing stuff on my sniper and with a charger its about 110/s without salvations, once I pop a slavation it goes to 0/s for a few seconds then goes to 160/s, something in those lines but its bugged as hell...

its always been bugged also in C1
i got a feeling that the devmins will say its client grapical bug and we dont need to worry
but i know its not, its a bug and it needs fix

I definitely remember this flavor of the bug starting with C2; in beta I kept running into it and going "WTF?"; around that same time on Live we had the fires bug which also killed shield charging so I had definitely been paying attention to my shield charging. it wasn't like this before.

From what I know, it is a client-side only bug. Meaning even though it displays like that, your shields on the server are actually correct.

yeah drone recharge for energy used to be screwed up sometimes, like when I would elec tractor them, but then it would suddenly jump up to actual levels, implying just the display is wrong, not the actual values. It's since been fixed, idk about this shield bug I haven't noticed it so far

I believe at least part of this bug occurs due to an "inventory changed timeout", which suspends normal shield recharging (but not shield charger) for about 3 seconds any time your inventory changes. This means normal shield recharging cannot take place if you are fighting enemies which add a parasite or fire to your inventory (such as Infernos, Urqa, Basils, Ice Picks, etc.). Using any sort of tweaks or scooping boxes will also activate the timeout period. I have not yet verified the effects of deploying fighters, drones, or missiles in relation to this bug.

The problem appears to be twofold, as described by a post above, relating to the priority of energy, where shield recharge has lowest priority over other energy needs (including shield charger!). This part would be far less of an issue if equipment is only turned off as a result of 0 energy reserves, instead of less than 0 energy income. (e.g. My energy income becomes negative when I'm firing my weapon, but my reserves are still enough to cover running all on-board equipment.)

Lastly, even if this is merely a client-side issue, I still die when I reach 0 shields due to this bug regardless if the display is synced with the server or not. That makes it more than just a display issue.

Get some mathematical proof, and I'll pass it to Jeff.

There's obviously a bug even if its just graphical...

Jeff dismissed fires as 'just graphical'. Just sayin'.

I was talking about the point of the topic. Shields charging sporadically when you pop a shieldbank tweak, not about fires.

Wait... aren't you the one with a private server? Even if not, don't you have an admin panel for content testing purposes? What I'm trying to say is, why don't you prove it? Players who've experienced the problem can give you very specific scenarios to test, but it's difficult to come to a firm conclusion from our standpoint.