Ships & Modules

They are, it's true, because...

1) Frigs don't have the PG, so that cancel's out any frig options

2) A cap recharger will give more cap on a battleship compared to them, besides you'd use a LCB on a battleship,so that cancel's out any frig options

3) Now cruisers, you would use a LCB on a cruiser also, but if you didn't have the PG, a Cap recharger would still give better cap recharge with less fittings reqs, so that cancels out Cruisers

4) This leaves A) Battlecruisers, which is the exact same as cruisers so BC's are out and B) Dessys, they are able to use them but it sucks away about 85-90% of their PG so nobody would bother.

5) Mining ships don't have the PG, so that cancel's out any mining ship options

6) This leaves haulers, now this seems like the only reasonable place you'd use them, except it still sucks away like 70-80% of their PG, but they don't have much else that uses PG.


So yea, they're quite useless, I suggest they lower the PG and CPU on them so smaller ships can use them, or raise the PG/CPU on LCB's so they only fit on battleships, then make it so MCB's give more cap on cruisers than a cap recharger so cruisers use them instead of LCB's.

Batteries do not affect cap stability, and I like cap stability.

I often wondered which was the better option - use a cap recharger to fill up what you have faster, or use a cap battery which kinda has the same effect, filling up more in the same time.. I'm sure there's a clever maths equasion that would work out which is the better option, but it's far beyond my addled brain..

I think cap rechargers are usually better if you need something like that, but cap batteries can be useful. For instance, a 5m skillpoint character can fit this and be cap stable:


[Caracal, PVE]

5x Heavy Missile Launcher I (Scourge Heavy Missile)

10MN Afterburner I
Small Shield Booster I
Medium Capacitor Battery I
Ballistic Deflection Field I
Kinetic Deflection Amplifier I

2x Ballistic Control System I

2x Hornet I

But switch out the battery for a cap recharger and he would only have ~8 minutes of cap.

Cap Batteries Can also be useful for travel fits allowing to warp over 100+AU systems without stopping. Again this is probably for lesser skilled pilots but its still helpful.

This is simply not true. MOST of the time a cap recharger is better, but if you have the right combination of cap rechargers and cap batteries, the cap batteries will help more.

There are a few - a very few- fits I've tried that get more cap duration with batteries then rechargers, but even then its only a matter of a few seconds, and if you are not running all mods simultaneously then you lose the advantage. A cap booster is better in every way that I've ever found.

[Ishtar, venal]
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Medium Armor Repairer II
Adaptive Nano Plating II
True Sansha Armor Kinetic Hardener
True Sansha Armor Kinetic Hardener

Omnidirectional Tracking Link I
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Large Peroxide I Capacitor Power Cell
10MN Afterburner II

Sisters Core Probe Launcher, Core Scanner Probe I
Prototype Cloaking Device I
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M

Medium Nanobot Accelerator I
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I


Vespa EC-600 x5
Hornet II x5
Wasp II x5
Warden II x5

old plexing fit i found, the cap battery makes it stable. could do with a better cap bonses though

A PVE Ishtar is about the only fit I have every found to put any kind of cap battery on and even then it was a large one. The battery was too.

if they had a much larger cap amount bonus and a bit less fitting woudl see more of them slapped into spare utility slots on tight as hell fits.

so over all they need a bigger bonus and less fitting req's, as atm there only used in limited pve fits