I originally wanted to put this in the U.I. improvement thread but figured it would make no sense, hence this topic
The idea is mighty simple actually
Once again the whole Wing Commander mod made me think about this, the way the shields on fighters works is kinda borked if anything, I can understand flux build up on a massive ship like Frigates and Destroyers and all thoses but a fighter doesn't have a freaking masive reactor like thoses ships so why would it work the same way something thats ten times bigger ?
My suggestion on this would be to have a special shield type for fighters that makes them completely immune to effects of flux and flux build up and instead give them a Quadrant shielding system
It would work like a Overshield of somesort, starts out with a maximum charge level and loses this charge when taking damage, when too much damage is dealt to the shield it is brought offline for some time so it can build back a charge, see it as a secondary armor plating
However each ship has up to 4 of thoses shields one covering each vector
Front, Left, Right and Rear
Since it would be a different shielding type it would also have a different weakness wich would be energy weapons...
There I said it...