EVE New Citizens Q&A

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Rigs_guide

This page is horribly outdated and biased!

You get full drawbacks, and CCP may be adding drawbacks to all rigs (currently, the rigs only requiring Rigging don't have any drawbacks):

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4900112#post4900112

Link to the Dev Blog for "Skillless Module Fitting" is in there too. The feature was released in Crius,

Only the rigging skills for weapon systems can be considered fitting skills.

FWIW, Is there a consensus on what the core skills are?

I stand corrected. I forgot those drawbacks were changed when armor tanking was overhauled, back in Retribution 1.1

CCP Fozzie wrote:

Armor Rigs

We are removing the ship velocity penalty from active armor tanking rigs (Auxiliary Nano Pumps and Nanobot Accelerators) and replacing it with a 10% penalty to the powergrid requirements of local armor repair modules. This serves to allow active tanking armor ships to more easily close range and use short range weapon systems, and also fits more elegantly with the concept of supercharging a ship’s armor repairers.

Yes.

does the requirements tab on the rigs actually serve any purpose now?

Letting you know which skill reduces the drawbacks?

For everything except the pure fitting rigs, the drawbacks are crazy horrible (e.g. increased power requirements for turrets, which are the vast majority of your power allocation on frigates). Or, god help you, all the rigs that make your ship immensely slower when trying to warp out of a trap or maneuver in combat.

I'm kind of curious what OP is doing exactly where rig drawbacks don't matter. Nothing but missions in a Battleship ever?

EDIT: On a related note, replacing the armor maneuvering penalty with a fitting penalty is going to make buffer so much more universally viable in PvP. Which sort of reinforces the point of the drawbacks being crazy important.

In mother russia, it nails YOU!

The reason they let you fit the rig without the skills is because you could *always* fly a ship with t2 rigs even if you didn't have skills to put them on. You just give the ship to someone who can, they fit the rigs and give the rigged ship back.

It was like.. Oh well lets just let everyone put them on.

However penalties do matter. A lot. Amour rigs can affect speed, shield sig radius etc. These really matter and getting rig skills up a bit to reduce these drawback is totally worth it.