Post by Brilenus on Jan 21, 2008 12:41:15 GMT -5
I have found a few things to be quite useful during my experimenting with shields, and perhaps others may find them helpful as well. However, I will not be saying exactly how to do things, as that is best found by each person. If I say exactly how to do something, it will be inefficient to most people.
First off, and rather obvious, tell your shield to listen to your commands. Some people forget to do this, and end up with shields that are stuck on them they they can't get rid of. Very embarrassing, and happened to me with my first shield. Was a rather easy lesson to learn however.
Second, do not make a shield drain your energy. This one is a little bit harder to learn than the above. If a shield drains your energy, then you will still be attacked directly due to the shield using your energy to maintain itself. This makes the shield useless, and you might as well not even have one. I recommend hooking the shield up to a random star.
Third, you do not want a shield to absorb what hits it and then give it to you. This is just like the above, except you end up overloaded rather than drained. Have it store the energy inside a construct within the shield, or channel it out into space, or into the earth.
Fourth, make your shield allow you to change the programming after you create it. It really sucks when you spend two hours on a shield, only to find that you messed up right at the start. I haven't had this happen, but I know people who have.
Fifth, make your shield only accept commands from you. MANY people fail this one, and it just makes you look stupid, because almost anyone can look over, then tell your shield to collapse on you and drain you.
Sixth, trust your gut feelings. If you get a feeling something will go wrong, put a known-good shield over it before you try it. I learned this the hard way with my cloaking shield turning into a energy/anti-energy bomb on me.
Seventh, shields can work both ways. If you are an empathic projector, and you are having a bad time, PLEASE create a shield around yourself that absorbs outgoing negative emotions and projects them into the earth, or space. Its very hard for other empaths to do anything when people are leaking out large amounts of negative emotions. I know this because I am both, and I have been on both sides before.
First off, and rather obvious, tell your shield to listen to your commands. Some people forget to do this, and end up with shields that are stuck on them they they can't get rid of. Very embarrassing, and happened to me with my first shield. Was a rather easy lesson to learn however.
Second, do not make a shield drain your energy. This one is a little bit harder to learn than the above. If a shield drains your energy, then you will still be attacked directly due to the shield using your energy to maintain itself. This makes the shield useless, and you might as well not even have one. I recommend hooking the shield up to a random star.
Third, you do not want a shield to absorb what hits it and then give it to you. This is just like the above, except you end up overloaded rather than drained. Have it store the energy inside a construct within the shield, or channel it out into space, or into the earth.
Fourth, make your shield allow you to change the programming after you create it. It really sucks when you spend two hours on a shield, only to find that you messed up right at the start. I haven't had this happen, but I know people who have.
Fifth, make your shield only accept commands from you. MANY people fail this one, and it just makes you look stupid, because almost anyone can look over, then tell your shield to collapse on you and drain you.
Sixth, trust your gut feelings. If you get a feeling something will go wrong, put a known-good shield over it before you try it. I learned this the hard way with my cloaking shield turning into a energy/anti-energy bomb on me.
Seventh, shields can work both ways. If you are an empathic projector, and you are having a bad time, PLEASE create a shield around yourself that absorbs outgoing negative emotions and projects them into the earth, or space. Its very hard for other empaths to do anything when people are leaking out large amounts of negative emotions. I know this because I am both, and I have been on both sides before.
