Also, a TIE Fighter-style system of power management would be great. In TF, you had one source of energy and had to balance recharging/depleting shields, reloading/depleting lasers and ion cannons, and giving power to engines. For example, to move really fast, you could transfer all power to your engines, which depleted your cannon ammunition stores and deflector screens. Or you could transfer power to the cannons' batteries and your deflector screens, causing your fighter to move significantly slower. In addition, you could transfer energy stored in the cannons' batteries to your deflector screens, and the other way around, and move power between forward and  after deflector screens, or even the two out. It was a good system, and I'd love to see it in FS.

However, I also realize it's probably impossible. Static or slow-moving starships can have 'shield zones', as described by me somewhere else on the forum (Link to concept post'), but fighters... I don't think so.

This feature would be very very neat though!

Not really sure though, it has been dicussed before I think.

anyways i was thinking about shields in this.. could it be possable to have an adjustable shield? like if your in an X-Wing and your being chased by some TIE fighters you can switch power to your rear shield? coz i just watched the originals the other day and noticed alot of dif shields like in ep4 when attacking the Death Star the x-wings set form into attack position and "switch all power to front deflector shields" also in ep6 when the SSD is taken out, just before that one guy shouts "Sir, we've lost the bridge deflector shield!"  so maybe have maybe 2 or 3 keys that switch the shield around to front, rear or normal for space combat.

sorry if this has already been posted be4..as i said im new here