Can Miranda recover shields past the starting amount of shields? Or is it just regen of shields lost?

You can't regain something you never had

10 minutes ago, Infurion said:

Can Miranda recover shields past the starting amount of shields? Or is it just regen of shields lost?

5 minutes ago, DeathstarII said:

You can't regain something you never had

Yes, in this game "recover" means "up to the starting value".

5 hours ago, Infurion said:

Can Miranda recover shields past the starting amount of shields? No. Or is it just regen of shields lost? Yes

But it's worth noting that she can recover an infinite number of shields - she can just never have more than her starting value at any given time.

So (assuming she never takes damage from outside sources for the sake of simplicity) she could, each round, alternate dropping a shield to boost her attack and dropping her attack to regen a shield indefinitely. But she can never regen a shield when she has full shields, nor pay a shield when she has none.

But it doesn't say "up to your shield value" like all the others say.

1 minute ago, gryffindorhouse said:

But it doesn't say "up to your shield value" like all the others say.

There is a general rule to this effect in the rules reference.

26 minutes ago, gryffindorhouse said:

But it doesn't say "up to your shield value" like all the others say.

Look, "recover" doesn't mean "get". It means "get back something you used to have". That said:

24 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

There is a general rule to this effect in the rules reference.

Which is good, because having to rely on a knowledge of what words mean is dicey in this game.

1 hour ago, gryffindorhouse said:

But it doesn't say "up to your shield value" like all the others say.

Ten points from Gryffindor.

But three hundred and seventy eight points to Harry Potter for no reason. Gryffindor wins!

"A ship cannot have more shield tokens than its shield value. If a ship has a number of shield tokens equal to its shield value, it cannot recover shields."

- Rules Reference, page 17 under "Shields"

Yeah, R2-D2 and similar effects are just redundantly worded. You can't regen up to fifty shields

Gonk, on the other hand, can have an infinite amount of shields on him - they just don't do anything useful until you transfer them to his ship. Which is limited to its Shield Value like everything else.