So at times almost banging my keyboard seeing again my ships
blown to pieces

I took or made a battleship, which has 1100 shield normally,
sending the ship to the hotspot which is normally a teleport spot on the map where the Gark race appears.

Steps to give the battleship some more shield.
I am using cheatengine 6.1 for this tutorial.

Always start cheatengine before you start game.

1: Run cheatengine, then the game.

2: Locate a battleship, or build a new one first.

3: Click on battleship, so its stats show on screen.

2: Pauze game,then ALT+TAB
In cheatengine, select game process gw.exe ,value 1100
scan type, exact value, value type, float .
Click first scan ,a lot addresses will show.
Go back in game.

3: Click on the battleship, so its stats show,wait till the
battleship gets attacked, and look closely at the number
the shield shows in ship window,
for example 1098, or a lower number.
Quickly pauze game,then ALT+TAB , and in cheatengine
do a next scan for 1098 ,or a lower number.

The result should always show 2 addresses.

Note:
"It needs some practice to make it indeed showing 2 adresses
because the shield value fluctuates very quickly in game".

One address is always the same,
the second one is the shield address we need to edit.

4: Change the 1098 into 999999999.

5: Go back into game , and if you did it right you will
see that your battleship has 1000000000 shield and is
invulnerable.

6: Now in game you can put that battleship on the hotspot
And the enemy keeps trying to kill your ship
giving you more time to build up your forces in other
parts of the map

Of course this also works with other ships you want to try
to give more shield

Bad part in all this, you have to do this with every ship
seperate, so for instance when you edit a battleship its
for that battleship only, all the other battleships stay at 1100
shield

Happy gaming and editing

Well you can try this:

Before you get attacked click the battleship
then alt+tab to cheatengine.
Do a first scan for value 1100 for the battleship.

Go back into game
and try to destroy the enemy.
do this with some more ship so you still have the battleship.
then if you still have your battleship look at its shield value
then alt+tab to cheatengine and do a next search for that shield
value

it should show then 2 adresses, as i mentioned in my tutorial

Only problem is, shields regenerate kind of quick when in battle, thats why i said you need to look closely at the shield number showing, that is when you have the technology to repair shields. else the shields dont repair itself when in battle.

then alt+tab to cheatengine and do a next search to make it show those 2 different addresses.

After the battle is done the ships shields stay at the value
it still has left. only when near by a military station the hull gets repaired, but shields never repair.
That is ,till you have the technology to repair shields.

hope that works

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