Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I apologize for not seeing yours. However this is definitely an expansion upon you idea. And both are a really interesting possibility.

Counter proposal:

Train shield tanking!

7.5% per second? You realise that means you can regenerate your entire armor hitpoints in 14 seconds? And you're proposing that this be allowed with a single module in a low slot and passive as well? Did you actually think about this idea? Like, at all?

I am 100% against this 'passive regen for armor' idea. It's quite possibly the worst case of a "WAAAAA I want what he has, but don't want to lose anything!" argument I've ever seen. If this goes into game it better have a massive penalty to armor hitpoints when fitted (not just online, fitted). Something like this would still be stupid, but it wouldn't be completely imbalanced either:

Regerative Plating
Limit one per ship
Low slot
passive
Reduces cap regen by
-60% armor hitpoints on all Armor Plates (to reduce a 1600mm plate down to the same hitpoints as a LSE II)
Regenerates 10 armor hitpoints and 2 hull hitpoints per second. (low so as not to break frigate PvP)

well, thank you Paikis for at least not completely shooting my idea down. so 5% would still be a bad idea (let alone 7.5%), but also think about this: would anyone in their right mind that floats around in a battleship fit something that does all you've proposed and regens only 10 points? certainly not! again, this will need a considerable greater amount of thought yet.

now Soporific, I can't see losing hitpoints just to go fast (unless you blow off armor, which could have a cool/horrifying effect in game, if one-shot (more in a bit!)), but I can certainly see an agility boost/ resistance flipper! something that would, when passive, make your ship more agile but then when active removes power from it's stabilizers to help boost resistance mods.

Basically, it would give a boost to agility, but then lose that bonus and provides a bonus to armor resistance amps/nano plates/ damage controls/ etc like how a shield boost amp improves shield boosters. since it's improving your current resists rather than tacking on more resists, it bypasses the stacking penalties. it'd have to be a fairly small yet noticeable bonus though, or we're back to 7.5% hp/s helllands.

Now, for the other mod, I can see a high-slot module that, once activated, destroys all fitted plates, destroys itself when you dock, but while active provides your ship with a healthy speed boost. This module can't be de-activated once active, and you leave a debris field that damages other ships as they fly through it. The field deals damage based on the victim's velocity (so interceptors will be torn to shreds while battleships will wonder wtf was that scratch?) and disintegrates in the same time that salvage does. Lastly, anyone who actually salvages all of that nonsense gets free metal scraps.

there's some fun thoughts ;)

alternative:

instead of passive regen, organic hulls require biomass supplies to start regrowing their shells, like the ancillary shield booster
only instead of cap boosters, they'd be cans filled with slaves

or finally giving a use to corpses

whether or not we need passive armor tanking is debatible but something does need to be done

Shield tanking options - buffer, active, speed, passive, ASB
Armor tanking options - Buffer, active,

you can't passive, you can kinda speed tank but any sort or real armor tank slows you down, and there is no ASB style armor module. the utility midslot argument isn't all that good, when you consider the fact that you have so many mids on shield tanked ships, and you can just throw on an invul LSEII and rig it for moar shield. the low slots for shield tanked ships only really need a DCU and the rest is damage mods or nanos.

I would much rather see a ASB style armor rep module, something that reps huge amounts of damage with cap boosters and has the reload times like asb. this would also be good because almost all active armor tanks need 2 reps to be remotely viable in PVE, PVP it would let active tanked ships have more action.

I should clarify as to the nature of my last response regarding it being active. I meant the module in question for a passive regen. Simply put if you have to activate then its basically a regular armor repper. That being said I do recognize that even with a passive ability active reppers would also be strongly desire. But imagine if you could offset the need for two reppers for armor tanks by having some passive armor repair and the active repair.

I like the idea of it being percentage based (5% max), but limited to one per hull like the DCU, and to negate the OP possibility, it also reduces the total armour EHP amount by a percent that is greater overall then the regen amount (Something like 10%?). In addition to the standard reduction in speed.