Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm reading this as the plates get a flat mass reduction and the skill would add further reductions.

Edit: to clarify, that the 1600 plates wouldn't change in the vanilla mass but the skill would skill affect them.

Do this, and my starfish is yours.

Love the proposed changes.

I have updated the OP to hopefully make that more clear.

This makes the hyperion very hard to fit, also your new mod is not as good as two faction reps.

Ahhhhh, so THIS is what you had in mind for active armor tanking Fozzie.

I like the proposed chances, and as a massive dual-rep armor tank old-stype nerd that i am, would like to point out:

1) dont let this nullify the potential mix of dual / triple reps, i mean, having dual "normal" reps + one Ancillary Armor Repairer if player wants to, and run all at once

2) If you are limiting the Ancillary Armor Repairer to a single unit per ship fitted, i dont think 225% bonus is enough, considering that on top of the reload time for cap boosters, and on top of cap boosters been a vital part of any active tank setup, taking in account the size they have and current cargo bay sizes, i would think a bit more "humph" would be a good idea

3) dont make them too hungry for cpu/power, any active tank setup is already super tight, usually we cant fit the ship without a cpu/grid rig or implants, if this module is "too" hungry it will basically means death to the normal reps.. just dont make them too hungry on fittings please.

4) Will there be a T2 variation?

5) maybe implants to affect this module and his shield variant?

6) How will this module be affected by ship bonus (kronos/hyper for example) and by boosters? (drugs)

if the rigs now effect the power grid amount for reps are you going to be adjust power gird of the mods/ships?

also while a aar with rigs might come some what close to the rep of a single asb the asb still has the option of having more than one. if the goal is to get better burst tanks on armor ships i think this still has some work to go. as the asb dosnt use/need riggs to increase its rep amount and thus can use those slots for other things. this armor rep will almost require some of the rep amount or rep overheat rigs to compare at all.

while i like the new mass skill and the reductions of mass on some of the plates why not the 1600 as it is the one predomiantly used?

lastly the different dynamic on the aar as far as rep and cap boosters is interesting and probably a better mechanic than the current asb one.

Is the intent here to create a sort of light armor/heavy armor dichotomy, wherein you can either go for max brickage with a heavy plate or have a fragile armor tank and not lose much speed?

Also, are there any ambitions to do something about the fact that 50/100mm plates are borderline useless, or the fact that past cruiser size, buffer modules stop scaling?

Liking it so far. Will think on it more.

Have doubts about this now. Buffer tank still looks better.

It looks like these changes will nicely address burst tanking and armor fit agility. How about the resist / rep bonus disparity? Are there plans to buff normal reppers across the board or raise all hull rep bonuses to 10% to address the problem that local rep bonuses are widely viewed as too weak and useless compared to active shield and resist bonuses?