Cliff’s already begun development on “G4” (check his blog). I think you’re waiting in vain for changes that will never come. I’d love to be proven wrong about that, but look at how many of the suggestions made on this board have done little but fade into oblivion over the last several months.
Sorry about the necro but i thought of something to add into this that i realize is going on. The shield effects are 1/4 of the whole shield and thus you are getting 4 areas including the so called phantom behind the ship shield effect. Why not make a oval slimline shape for the longer that wide ships, and a wider than longer shield shapes to help with the epicily big dreadnaughts that some are putting out?
i already said that before, but the shield affects to the entire race, therefore all the ships must have the same shape config, But there is a bigger problem, we can change the graphics, not the code of the shield, meaning that the shot will bounce against a circular shaped shield as allways