I remember when I first got involved in games I picked up x wing alliance, which did the variable power situation (with spllitin it between shields an weps, etc.) and I loved it. A feature such as that would blow alot of people away, since that was really missin from GC. Directionable shields would be a neat addition too. This would rock on fighters, but think of the impact on capital ships (and by this I mean small pilotable ones [i hope] like the corellian corvette or what ever else is flyable). That would be really incredible if captians could move power to their shields during a torpedo volley, and boost power to weapons after.

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