I also like that there are no shields in the BSG universe, kinda like split on steroids.

Just heavy reinforced hull for capitals, and what hull the fighters have is all that is keeping you alive. I find the trop of...shields at 60%, shields at 45%, shields at 10%, oh gee commander, at what procent are our shields right know?... so annoying. Also, from what I've seen online, the shields are considered to be more "space magic" than warp drive, as in warp drives are more likely to be possible than forcefields.
I would not mind to forgo the shields concept in X4, what hull you have is what you got, just add the shield value to the hull. We already have 1 million MJ shields that can't protect surface elements from a fighter pew pewing at it. Hell, those of us that use split ships, consider shields as something that is not there for very long anyway.
