User blog comment:Ficus7/Allowed Technology/@comment-10700122-20140913160718/@comment-11135771-20140913232829

I would say no, if only for the reason that I try to keep things close(ish) to what could be made or at least approximated in the actual game. At least, aside from things that would be useless if they did exist in BSC, such as FTL travel and city-destroying mega cannons (well, they would be useful, but both would also be waayyyy overkill).

That said, if you can make shields on your ship in game, I have no problem with you having them. But they have to exist (and preferably actually work) in game.