Ships & Modules

I didn't know the letter "e" was so powerful.

Module is a good idea however it's rather pre nerfed sadly... For the module to be viable it's going to need a rather significant reduction to it's cap usage as well as a cap usage reduction attached to the skill that decreases duration.

The adaptation time is too long.

That the cap usage increases with higher skill is stupid. Increasing a skill should never have a direct drawback.

I don't trust the algorithm behind it to make the best choice when different sources of damage are incoming. Or does it actually calculate which damage type does the most damage?



In other words, I think this module would work better with scripts and no adaptation time.

The day that thing gets balanced you'll probably be retired and at least 2 grand grand children

unstack its bonuses like a dcu.

Done.

AFAIK it doesn't need even damage distribution, it reacts to all damage types equally even though one would only account for 1% of damage.

Unfortunately there are very few engagements on the smaller scale where all the opponents fly the same ship and do just one damage type, limiting this module to large fleet engagements where the other party is flying Amarr. Furthermore typical small gang fights are over well before this reactive hardener reaches it's full potential.

In PVE all rats do at least two damage types.

It seems that this module was only introduced to fool people into thinking that CCP actually cares about armor vs shield balance in the game.

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Last time I fiddled with one, I noticed a few things. However, these could have changed since then...

If you start taking laser fire, it will shift towards 30 EM/ 30 Therm. Regardless of whether you're taking fire from Multi or Microwave, so long as there's some EM and some Therm, it'll shift equally. It does however, try to even out your EM and Therm resists as best it can. So if it needs to send a little more towards one or the other to level them out, it will do so.

Once its made the adjustment to EM and Therm, it tends to lock. That means a smart (and patient) opponent could swap for Missiles and shoot through the unprotected Kin/Exp hole.

The only way to fill the hole is to turn the module off and back on, starting back at base resists.

As has already been addressed, the key problem with the module as is... is the skillbook associated with it. Sure, it makes the module cycle faster. That means it'll adapt faster. But it does nothing for the Cap draw. And considering how hungry the module is to start with, compared to other active hardeners... speeding it up also makes it gobble Cap quicker. Training the skillbook is like giving every opponent you face from now on, a Neut to use against you.

Sure, we get it... its a prototype. Now let's see the real thing. Less Cap draw, or at least reduced draw as the skill trains. Let it continue to adapt, if the incoming damage profile shifts.

It would be nice if the RAH would use a base cap use of 1GJ per cycle when on "idle" which would make it inline with a DCU and when your ship is engaged have it bump up to 20-25. The 20-25GJ is roughly 2.5 to 3 times the usage of regular armor hardeners which would be fair in my eyes since it cycles every 5-6 seconds. The higher usage could remain constant as long as the ship was taking fire and then taper back down to the idle consumption once the hostilities ceased.

I haven't had much time using this module but from reading this thread and others perhaps the reactivity timer could be reduced to say %20-25 recalibration per cycle. That way with the skill maxed out at 5 the player can expect this module to be functioning within 20-25 seconds, but could it at least be under a minute. I really like the idea of this module so I am keeping it on my ship but just a few changes would make this a great module for armor tankers. It would also make sense to me to replace the duration overheat bonus with a resistance boost to be inline with other hardeners. My rationale is with the skill trained to level 5 is it really cool to have a module that has a cycle time of 4.25 which equates to a cap use of 9.8GJ a secound?

Also does the RAH start calibrating as soon as the ship is fired upon over once you start taking armor damage? I was just out letting a little rat shoot me for about 5 minutes and it did not fluctuate at all. Would be nice if it would configure to the incoming fire before it starts knocking on the hull.

To conclude I am excited about this mod but it needs a little love, not to the level of the ASB but just enough to make it shine and be relevant.

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