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@SoniClover

With the way they currently handle cap charges, that is highly unlikely.
Running the best possible size charge (currently 5 or 6 navy per boost cycle), means you have have a cargo hold with TONS of cap charges. Granted, it takes a fair bit of time to go through all that cap since reloading takes a fair bit of time, but I think it's a fair trade.

Allowing multiple ancillary boosters to be fit is cheaper (in grid) than running a typical injector AND booster, and means you could potentially set up your tank (especially if linked) to last long enough to endure the 60 second reload time. On very popular ships like the 100mn Tengu, this would be quite difficult to break.

You've said you're doubling their stats, and that will probably be enough to make these worth using.
Basically, the achilles heel of these modules is their long reload time, which is good.

Once someone needs to reload, they are incredibly vulnerable.
Allowing multiple to be fit circumvents this shortcoming, and is easily afforded on ships that currently use injector+booster setups.

If that's the intention then they're totally useless.

You are so tight on Midslot for shield slots, you can't afford to take a passive fit and then stick on a "non-passive" module on passive tank.

This module benefits passive tanking in absolutely no way possible, takes away from the ability to put scrams and webs - and then does a pathetic amount of "repair" for a passive tank.

I think your assertion is incorrect. This module is intended as an alternate style of active tanking that frees you from requiring to use a cap booster so you can still run more mid slots in EWAR.

A scorpion for example could benefit this because it won't take massive DPS at 120km range but with 1 free midslot it can now have a shield booster that allows it to stay on the field longer and not interrupt its ability to put out ECM. This still makes a 60 second reload unbearably long for a active boosting module where you're basically FORCING the pilot to use other midslots to support it when you can get along better with a simple shield booster and cap booster combo.

If you want to say this has alternate purposes, make it better at something other than the current standard.

After SoniClover updates the modules to what he has described, a single LASB will boost 2 LSEs worth of EHP before needing to reload.

Assuming you aren't in a situation to get volleyed, that puts the LASB in a preferable position over a second LSE to go in the mids of your Hurricane/Vaga/etc. And with bonuses, it will be even better to have 1x LSE, 1x LASB rather than 2x LSE, even with all CDFEs in your rig slots.

A 2x LASB fit, or a 1x LASB/1x Invuln or SBA fit isn't viable because you can get volleyed.

These are something of a shield buffer refresher, and assuming you already have one LSE fit, are more beneficial than a second LSE in low alpha situations.

...and all I was hoping new killmails like "dear sir/mam, you have been podded and now your corpse is floating in cold space. Unfortunately our cloning facility is broken and you can not be revived. Welcome to Eve - please roll new character".

Anyways keep doing what you're doing - the amount of positive 2 way communication in this thread indicates that there will be some awesome stuff coming in winferno.

...and just to be clear - u can ignore my 1st sentence as being a troll.

Agree with all the above Drone boats dont depend on turrets to do there damage. Any drone boat pilot i know would happily give up there turrets for the drone damage mods to be high slot. And most drone boats Armor tanked Ie (low slots are already taken). I can understand you want to make them in line with gyros and heat sinks and such but it just isn't viable.

As example of this A domi set up for afk missions will have there lows filled with armor hardeners 2 repairers and a cap power relay while the mids are all cap rechargers. Most people dont even fit turrets to a afk ship like that and instead choose drone link augs a laser ( any will do to pull agro) and reps to repair your drones. And for the PVP side of things A neut Arbitrator is about the same lows for tank Mids for scrams and utility mods and your highs are neuts.

***Both Drone boats have fits where these new mods would only be beneficial in a high slot position.****

Now im sure there are other examples of ships in the same situation, and people who fit there ships differently but i do believe that the new drone damage mod should be a high slot And should be buffed more then currently offered (especially since Nothing can be done about the ROF)

FYI im not a fan of the new war dec system, but i wasnt exactly a fan of the old system either.

i understand the logic of more targets = more isk, and although i dont particularly like it, i understand its logical place in the war dec system. I just feel theres more to it than just numbers of targets....

One idea that gained some traction and CCP Guards approval is to also base war dec costs on the standings of the targeted corp/alliance towards the 4 main factions and concord.

Why, you may ask?

Well the war dec system is essentially a way of bribing security services in high sec to 'look the other way' when it comes to illegally attacking someone in high sec. Standings are essentially a metric to measure how much a friend you are to NPC's. So to bribe someone (NPC's) to look the other way when you're attacking/killing a friend of theirs should cost a lot more!

So yes, when you look at it, numbers should make a difference, BUT standings should make a difference too!


One problem in this is that alliances dont have standings from NPC's. So I'd suggest Alliances incorporate NPC standings increases in the same way corps do today - A slow and gradual increase based on the average of it pilots.

What do you guys think

We didn't get the updated shield boosters? Same stats as last week.

For those who don't want to logon Sisi to see a single number:

Against goons.

Ooh, now that's nice