Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

Do the effects of DRS differ if you run it alone vs you run it in a program like in LTU, DMSI, etc?
I mean if you run it alone it has all your mind power for itself (well, except from other bodyfunctions like breathing, talking, moving, thinking) but in LTU the energy would be divided in DRS and also in manifesting goals or healing, in DMSI it would be divided in DRS and one or several auras, as well as manifesting and maybe also sniping...

DRS is most powerful when you run the stand alone, and don't have anything else running in your head.  But when combined with a program doing something else, while it does lose some power, that loss is not really very big in my experience.  

If I were to make a DRS-free (shield at all free) version of say LTU, and you ran stand alone DRS also, it would not improve the effects.  So your options are to use nothing but DRS, or use it alongside or within something else, and have some resources go elsewhere.

Unless you're trying to run two shields at once, or two programs with different types of shields embedded, in which case they will tend to conflict and not work well.