This happened to me as well. Even though I started a new game and only researched shields, it still defaulted to point defense. I don't believe that it is an example of the game using the "best defense". A saved game that I loaded form the pre patch version where all the ships had shields, was converted by the new patch version to point defense. I contacted support at Stardock and they say its a game play/mechanic issue. It';s very annoying to have to red
25 Replies
20,712 Views