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NOVEMBER 2004

• Put it back in as it was. (19)
• Keep it removed entirely. (29)
• Give it to Soviets only (secondary Iron Curtain superweapon) (22)
• Other (comment please) (8)

Some Fan Comments:

• bladerunner229: I always hated this superweapon, because it was completely useless and it powered your base down. Giving the soviets 3 superweapons is hardly fair.
• Whiteboy: You should replace the Force Shield with a new superweapon. Perhaps a "power structure down" function like in TS, or a "sell unit" function, or just a normal superweapon like the Ion Cannon or Meteor Shower. The Ion Cannon is probably the best thing to do, and give it to all sides as a tactical backup "mini" superweapon.
• Novice01: Why don't you give it to Yuri? Like Yuri stole the Cloning Vats, the Psychic Sensor, the Yuri Clone and then he modified the Iron Curtain resulting the Force Shield.
• YuriTD88: Why not give it to Yuri?  He will have 3 superweapons, not fair.  But actually, the genetic mutator is crap as it is now, maybe you CAN give it to Yuri without unbalance...  As a low-level superweapon.  So his low-level superweapons are split in two pieces.  The Force Shield shouldn't give low power when activated then.
  Also, a new building for the force shield, costs 1250 and uses half the power of what a normal low-level SW uses, mutator will cost 1250 and same power usage.
  But give the mutator a little less range. This way, Yuri will have some advantage in a different way, while there is STILL balance.
  Think about this..
• Snakebite: Personally I think that only the Soviets should get Force Shield\Iron Curtain type structure.  But...  Each side should have an anti-superweapon defense.
  Soviets could keep Force Shield, but it should only protect against Psi. Dominator & Weather Storms.
  Allies should have an Active Laser Defense which would be able to shoot down Nukes & agitate the Psi. Dominator wave so it becomes not effective.
  Yuri should have a Psychic Shield that can steer Nukes & create a highly charged ionosphere which would stop Weather Storm Clouds from forming near his base.
  Each of these would be a special building that would cost between $1500 and $2500. Each should have a fairly long recharge time 4+ minutes. These buildings would require a side specific Battle Lab to be built and the superweapon defenses should knock out the power for a short period of time (10 seconds) while the power grids have to be re-calibrated to deal with the huge power spike that just happened.
  This way each of the sides would still be vulnerable to one of the three superweapons available and if it is used once and another superweapon is launched after the first superweapon but before the superweapon defense has recharged the superweapons would do damage as normal (i.e. Dominating Buildings/Troops Lightning Storms or Nuke Missile damage)
• Raizen: Send it to hell, I barely use it and frankly don't care if it's there or not.  If you decide to give it to Yuri, turn the animation purple so it looks right.
• SlimJim718: How about replacing the force shield with some superweapon that isn't so strong.  A cruise missile that is called from off the map much like Boris's MiGs and makes a small warning when launched.  Good versus buildings but misses if units move.  Missile cost: 1750.  Recharge time: 3 min.