AFTER TESTING...
Ok so from what I understand, the Mini shield consumes 2.71 times more power than the vanilla? Because that's actually insane. After fiddling around and looking through the code, it seems that all of the bubble shields actually consume a lot more than the vanilla version.
Going from there, small comsumes 5 times as much, medium consumes 10 times and large 16 times as much yeah I would agree that that is quite a lot
I do think that @Lafiel 's stats are interesting and balanced, but his stats are based on the shield coverage area, and that would mean that these shields would consume a lot more energy. To make it balanced, I don't think it should be based on a bunch of calculations for shield coverage, but there should instead be a 'tax' for having more area coverage. Maybe it should be related to the radius-energy consumption ratio times 2 so they consume twice as much energy per unit of radius compared to the vanilla shields.
So the vanilla shield has a radius of 7.5 and a consumption of 100. That would be a consumption rate of 13.33 energy per unit of radius.
Sp the Mini shield has a radius of 3.5 and so to calculate its consumption, we have to do 13.33 X 3.5 which gives us 46.66 but since the Mini shield has 360 degree coverage, we multiply that by 2 to get 93.33 energy consumption per tick for the mini shield.
Doing the same calculations for all the other shields...
Small - 133.33 Energy Consumption/Tick
Medium - 300 Energy Consumption/Tick
Large - 533.33 Energy Consumption/Tick
Of course, that's all if you decide that the 'tax' stays at only twice the vanilla cost.
Even If you made it balanced so that the bubble shields cost 4 times as much because of their 4x larger arcs, you get values that are much lower than your current ones...
Mini - 93.33 Energy Consumption/Tick
Small - 266.66 Energy Consumption/Tick
Medium - 600 Energy Consumption/Tick
Large - 1066.66 Energy Consumption/Tick
It all depends on how you balance, but yeah after playing around with it you definitely need to reduce the Consumption Costs.## Heading ##