Station and Planet absorbing

[Nephadral]

I am a little unclear about how my station is absorbing power.  The space station where my planet is claims to have 115% absorb power.  In attacking it myself, my 40 billion FP ship is able to do a small amount of damage, but all of the kami fleets attack is absorbed.

at the same time i have level 20 planetary shields (which should give me 100% absorb to my planet's ground forces).  I doubt that this means that my colonists are indestructible, but I am unclear on how to determine exactly how much damage they will take and if it makes any sense to ever invest in more shields than i currently have.

any insights would be greatly appreciated

[KenquinnTheInsaneOne]

I am a little unclear about how my station is absorbing power.  The space station where my planet is claims to have 115% absorb power.  In attacking it myself, my 40 billion FP ship is able to do a small amount of damage, but all of the kami fleets attack is absorbed.

at the same time i have level 20 planetary shields (which should give me 100% absorb to my planet's ground forces).  I doubt that this means that my colonists are indestructible, but I am unclear on how to determine exactly how much damage they will take and if it makes any sense to ever invest in more shields than i currently have.

any insights would be greatly appreciated

Nope its capped at 80% now it used to be that way but its not anymore as far as I can remember

[Nephadral]

so there is no point to getting more that 18 planetary shields then?

[KenquinnTheInsaneOne]

so there is no point to getting more that 18 planetary shields then?

No there is no point in getting more then 16 planetary shields as 18 would give you 90% ASB which goes down to 80%

[Spayed]

yea 16 is all you should get, emi fixed the bug where you could have 100% abs along time ago

[Comatose]

I got 125% when it was first discovered 

[Spayed]

lol and what did that give you?

[Comatose]

Invincibility, nighty couldn't kill it 

[Nephadral]

thanks for the math correction.  i did mean 16 not 18.

well that is good to know, next time i can save some CP and turns