Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So I was considering the possibility of a module designed to give armor tanks a passive regen like shield tanks. And to be honest to the naysayer I say it is both possible and easily pulled from the eve universe and fairly common in a ton of other unrelated scifi. The simplest option is a module that offers a semi organic design based off of rouge drones. Give it the ability to recover armor point at the cost of some extra cap cost (simply bu plugging it in not activating it kinda like the mwd's do but nothing so drastic). Obviously making it weak to certain types of damage is both necessary and easily explained due to organic systems being inherently weak to certain things like radiation (IE explosive dmg). It wouldn't even need to be organic. Crystals are grown and as such if it were designed properly it could conceivably be that as the armor is broken it uses the cap is has claimed at being plugged in to stimulate crystalline growth. However using a crystalline method would generally make it stronger then the organic version as the crystalline lattice could be enticed to grow stronger resistances as well as a regen capacity. I fully entertain legit responses intended to discuss the potential's and even possible drawback or things that might hinder this. I do not intend to tolerate trolls. Also fully acknowledge that the idea would need fleshing out by people with greater knowledge then I have.

-
I did multiple searches on this forum for related topics prior to posting anything.

So your argument is that it brings it closer in nature to shield tanking and a such since it might possibly actually balance the two types you will have nothing to do with it?

I'd say the argument is it would remove some of the uniqueness from the two tanking philosophies.

Armor = slow, tough, more utility mids, and needs active or external reps
Shield = large sig radius, agile, more upgrade lows, more vulnerable to larger weapons

Now that I think about it, just shove a small armor repairer in one of your low slots. In between fights, you can slowly "regen" your armor, as the OP requests.

The point is, passive regen is a trait of shields. Trying to have one tank style mimic the other dilutes them both. Let them be unique.

Sooo, what your saying is you will trade a low slot to fit a small armor repper...Do you play eve just curious

Armor tanking is active, uses active armor repping, takes cap, has rigs and modules that increase their power.

Shield tanking can be active by using active reppers, taking cap, and has rigs and modules to increase their power...shield tanking can ALSO be passive and regenerate over time.

Armor can't do that last one.

So its not that they are different, its that they are not balanced.

See how that is.

So either remove active shield tanking (please GOD don't really do that) or add passive armor tanking (yea...do that)

Buffer tank is a totally different kind of tanking, and is balanced fine.

EDIT: I also happen to think that hull tanking should be more viable than it is...but that is a different topic all together.

Read what the OP suggests again and perhaps you'll understand what I was saying.

No they don't.

Cause a passive armor regen would work even while you had ZERO capacitor the same way passive shield regen does.
And there would be a PEAK regen just like shields, so a small armor repper would not do the same thing.

I think you don't understand how passive shield regen works....

I made a thread about this subject a while back. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=130201