Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Active damage mods for medium slots.

We have passive TE for low slots, we have active Tracking Computer for medium slot, shield tanking also can be adjusted with modules in low slots too, there are many modules active for medium and passive for low slot modifying same stats.

So why to not implement active damage mods for medium slots too? On shield tanked ships you always can fit with max tank and max damage, but on armor tanked ships you cant fit more than 1-2 damage mods because of lack low slot dedicated for too much things to do.
This will solve problem with damage balance between armor\shield tank fits.

On shield fitted ships you can chose both, gank & tank.

Anyway you have speed and mobility for tanking on shield fits, also as example attack battlecruisers, speed and agility is more important, because it gives more advantages.

You can fit large and X-large shield booster on medium hulls, anyone knows shield tank is better just because you can fit it in max gank and tank, it has better speed and are more agile than armor.
And we are talking not only about lowsec, and pvp. Also your argument about low sec and armor is just your personal preference and this doesnt mean everybody does the same. Repeat EvE is not only your lowsec and your faction wars. These rules are not valid in WH where tengu is must have.
"- Hey you got a tengu? Omg you dont got a tengu it is better ship in game because of shield, it haves range it haves best damage and best tank, get a tengu man."

Having flown a variety of ships, this comment does hold a certain amount of truth.

Armour tanking in low-sec is indeed a safer bet for mid~Large size gangs (10-20 peeps). You don't get the massive lag spikes when playing in Low sec, so armour tanks are used more frequently & frees up the mids for whatever tackle/ecm gear you want to have.

Shield tanks are pretty much the norm in null sec due to that frequent occurrence of nothing happening when you jump through a gate into a 100 man blob!!!
And although you'll find a lot of active armour tanks in low sec, most shield tanks in null are set for buffer & not active (see above comment for one of the many reasons)

Natural shield regen as well is why Shield is normally preferred. and you also have the armour and hull hps in case it all goes "Pete Tong" and you need to bail and GTFO!!

IF you're armour tanking (active or buffer) and the proverbial nasty hits the fan, wave goodbye to your ship as you're gonna pop quick once it's gone and you're into hull hps.

That is the basics of why Shield set-ups are generally preferred over Armour ones.


But, back to topic:

Shield tank/buffer & Max DPS Loadout (mids and lows), minimal slots for tackling/ewar
Armour tank/buffer & Tackle/Ewar Loadout (lows and mids), minimal slots for DPS improvements

If you start adding DPS mods for mid slots, then people are just gonna ask for low slot mods for tackling

And then balance goes seriously out of whack.

What would be nice is some passive mid slot mods that improve the armour tanks (similar to low slot shield mods)

Active damage mod wil be just a another way to fit ship for people who usually dont use EW. So what is the problem? You will be able to fit your ship with EW if want.

mid slot armor buffs? no way! say it isnt so!

i have drooled over the idea of having SOMETHING in my mid slots on my abso or geddon (or any other amor ship) to help with armor tanking for years.
maybe an active mod that increases my repper rate? maybe an active mod that gives a % increase of nanobots luvin per cycle?

something...=)

This will get me a bit of flak, but I agree with the author. Damage modifiers are one of the few low-slot items that don't have a mid-slot counterpart.

will not be added, have to choose between dps or tank, cant have both, if you add mid slot modules they will only be abused (raised alphas to tornado fleets anyone?)