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Except as soon as you turn off TE shield booster it will start it's reload cycle.

Honestly - increase the capacity so we can get 6-8 cycles off of the cap charges an I would buy it.

Ah, got my hopes up for nothing. Does CCP even acknowledge that the current war dec mechanics are deeply flawed, and do not enable the kind of play that they are designed to create?

I'm getting a real head-in-the-sand vibe here, and I got the same vibe from the Fanfest talk. The players know that this is barely going to make a difference, and noone seems to be willing to try to solve or even acknowledge the actual problem.

Until CCP actually looks at the real problem - that the only effective defence in a wardec is to bore your attacker into submission - then they will not make wardecs a compelling part of the game.

There should be, and I keep saying this in the hopes that CCP might hear it, four key ways to handle a wardec.

Fight and Win
Fight and Lose
Hide
Surrender

And for reasons that have been explained at length before, Fight and Win is not possible, and Surrender is not even slightly effective. Not even after your changes.

All you have done is change how much it costs to initiate the game of "who gets bored first".

@SoniClover
Okay, if you doubled all the stats I'll give you the benefit of the doubt up until Monday when it goes up
Did you adjust the DURATION as well? Because I think that should stay put if not be a second longer.

Also, I highly recommend restricting ships to one ancillary booster.
I know they aren't the easiest things to fit, but with such mechanics tanking quite hard with multiple boosters is a real possibility.

Also get that Tengu some reduced CPU

@SoniClover

I think one of the issues is that using the cap charges at the start of the fight is not benificial to the use of the fueled booster. Usually, damage goes up. Is it possible to make you choose at what point you are going to start using cap charges ?

In a scenario like that, I can see the booster being far more useful, for oshit moments.

Also, there are reports of Blue Pills not applying to the booster, bug ? Are we getting a bit variety in the mods, not just the t1 module that really is not very useful for alot of people.

No, I'm totally OK with this.

That turns these modules into a shield buffer support module.

In other words, you end up with a hybrid between buffer tanking (ie dual LSE vagabond, etc) and active tanking. Now, if you really wanted to, you could fit one LSE and an ancillary booster on the Vagabond. You rely on having buffer (and your speed tank), but also the ability to claw some shields back, whereas your standard Vaga has a large buffer but is forced off the field once it gets low.

I've already made a fit that takes advantage of the Manticore's extra mid slot to fit a medium ancillary booster. With the changes you've proposed, I can fit an MSE, and still be able to refresh my tank about ~60% every minute. In order to do this, I'm sacrificing an ewar utility mod like a target painter or even a tracking disruptor, but it still plays out very nicely.

perhaps it cud buff tracking instead of rof? make more of the dps apply?

If ROF can't be changed, please increase the damage, because drone dwellers will, or have to use the medium slot mods.
Damage and tracking implemented in one mod would be overpowered, considering the other mods increasing damage or tracking.

tl:dr:

We already use mods inceasing range and tracking. Just increase the dmg multi and we will see how it will work. 40 CPU is too much.

The ancillary shield booster is an overly complicated shield circuit breaker. Divorce it completely from a ship's capacitor to ensure it is at least used as such.

After testing a Sleipnir with an XL Anc Shield Booster and testing an XL Shield Booster with cap booster, the cap booster setup just performs better because there's a lot of other stuff that needs capacitor (such as scrams, webs, etc)... when you need it, making it more flexible.

The current situation is that it's probably best to still run a cap booster with the XL Anc shield booster.


The biggest issue with this module is that you HAVE TO USE your cap charges early in the fight, when you have the most cap. And then when you're running low on capacitor (neuted, etc), then you've run out of charges, you can't load more charges because you have a 60 second delay. And so you've blown the best part of that module when you don't need it (in full cap) and then are screwed when you do need it (you're out of cap).

SO, is there a way to maybe get this to work in a more consistent manner with when I WANT TO USE the cap boosters, and less in a manner that ties my hand when it comes to using the module?

I think the biggest issue is the 60 second reload delay, which I can understand WHY you think it needs to be there, but seriously, the damn thing blows through cap boosters so fast that the biggest issue is you're going to run out of cap boosters before you can do anything. The way I'd use this module is to have it empty when i go into the fight. as I start to suffer serious cap issues, take 10 seconds and load the cap boosters and start pumping my reps through despite the neuts/cap issues and then give them a surprise.

Setting a 10 second Cap booster delay is going to mean you can take up to 5,000 Damage in a solo fight in the time it takes to reload it and get it cycling again. That's a long time and is enough of a penalty without going up to 60 seconds.

There's a better way to balance this module without pre-nerfing it with a 60 second reload that can serious screw you up if you accidently "reload' it at the wrong time and becomes more of a liability than a blessing.

Hint: Ancillary shield boosters aren't meant to be fit without a buffer, and are not even a substitute/sidegrade for standard shield booster tanking