Ships with shield supply beams but no sheild recharge.

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    I have been looking at a few ships and I see this a lot but I am not sure why. A lot of the ships I downloaded to have a look at are built with a bunch of shield caps, and shield supply beams, but have not a single shield recharge block. I am not sure how it makes sense to transfer all your shields to another ship when you have no way to regenerate them yourself. Is there a reason behind this I have missed?
     

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    Are you sure those are SSBeams and not the legacy weapons?
     
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    Those are definitely old ships before the weapons update. The old BB and Heatseaker missiles turn into Shield supply beams and I think power supply beams? Correct me if I'm wrong. That would also explain the lack of shield recharge.
     
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    well I am sure it is a shield supply beam because I transferred 10% to another ship I was shoot at to see how good the weapons are. However, I can say that yes it was an old ship for sure I have been looking at some of the old ships just going through old fleet lists to get a peek at what has already been done. But now it does make sense, because i was also looking at some of the old texture packs and that was an omgwtfit moment, all my windows turned into missile launchers (texture wise, not literally) and a bunch of other weird stuff. That was before I looked it up on the boards and saw only the default and dirtyspace textures where at the time up to date with the game.

    I believe I understand now what I have been seeing thank you for clearing this puzzle up for me.