Unless things have changed, regen is the only thing that contributes to bubble size. I can have as many capacitors as I can fit inside a bubble as I want.
Going off previous experience with docked forcefields, not very many.
Irrelevant when all of the numbers change every couple days. The specific numbers don't actually matter right now anyway- the only scenario in which unshielded hull isn't viable is one in which the shield bubbles are so large that they, as a feature, are completely worthless to implement anyway, as any ship will be fully covered by anything remotely approaching reasonable shield recharge rates anyway.
This is very simple: you're wrong to worry about docked hull with shields 2.0 as they are (even if we first accept that docked hull is bad in the first place).
Creating a docked hull, even just "fwd quarter" docked hull, will be so impractical that it will happen rarely, if at all, because shield range bubbles are so large for any shield with decent
regen.
For example, here's a Despoiler in 200.172. (Anyone can verify this by doing it themselves) Fwd end to the left.
You can't see it through all the shield bubbles but I've drawn in red an approximate bounding profile box.
Despite the fact that that shields in this ship are split into a bazillion smaller groups, shield range is so large that docked hull would be impractical.
If the shields were a single group, to duplicate their recharge ability in shields 1.0, the range bubble would be so large as to make docked hull virtually unthinkable.
I'll say it again: with current shields 2.0 docked hull is possible, but so impractical that we aren't likely to see it.
In any event why not make the Scanner help with targeting for cannons and beams? Or the Recon Chambers? maybe putting upgrades into those chambers on that path would make it so you could lead targets better or parts of targets? Say you're aiming for a particular turret or shield generator having some kind of directional lead indicator would help.
