0.3.1: Shield_4_level_3 breaks Dryad guns

[enlightenment]

Under the current 0.3.1 Windows relase of VS, adding a shield_4_level_3 unit to the dryad.blank will prevent the ship's guns from recharging.

This problem can be worked-around by saving the game and replacing the line

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<Reactor recharge="20.000000" limit="140"/>

with

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<Reactor recharge="1000.000000" limit="1400"/>

in the unit savegame file.

Recharge values below 500 don't seem to help at all; a value of 1000 is required for the guns to work if one mounts an ECM unit in addition to the 4/3 shield.

I'm fairly new to Vegastrike so I'm not familiar enough with the source to figure out exactly what's going wrong here.

[V4X3N Being Lazy]

The ship upgrade/modification system is somewhat b()rken, in that you can load your ship up with upgrades which make it work worse, and aren't removable. This is a known issue, and one of these ages it will be dealt with - it has been at least tweaked for the next release, if not outright solved.

[hellcatv]

you gotta get a higher engine to compensate for the shields power drain

the upgrades aren't broken

[V4X3N Being Lazy]

When I mentioned problems on this topic nearing 2 months ago now, you said that there are some shield-mods which aren't removable, which are capable of sending your shield-recharge draw through the max of the best engine you can have.
This has been adjusted/fixed?

[enlightenment]

you gotta get a higher engine to compensate for the shields power drain

I already tried to upgrade the engines on general principle but the upgrade ship interface won't cooperate. Engine_level_5 was reded-out ever since I bought the Dryad.

That save game has about 6 million credits so it's not a cash problem.

[hellcatv]

you may just need to lower your shield level so you have enough engine level to power it
engines can power up to one shield level higher than they are...