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Last night I used my 4M points to train tactical weapon Reconfiguration to level 5 in a second.
We undock a small dread fleet to kill a titan, I used the new T2 Siege module. This is my report:

Differences between t1 and t2:

700 -840 damage multiplier (20% difference)
-75% - 70% scan resolution bonus (6,66% difference)
locket targets 2-3 (33% difference)

first we can see there is no coherence between the values! The numbers seem to have been given by chance. The locket target needs to be an integer so I understand the 33%, but the scan resolution difference should be in the same percentage than the damage difference -> 20%. 6,66 is a joke, its nothing!

we went to battle:

First I want to report a bug, my weapons where grouped but I got the damage report in the monitor of only one gun:

[ 2011.11.05 01:45:28 ] (combat) Your Rift Citadel Torpedo hits NTT Neverdie [SDG]<SOLAR>(Erebus), doing 4002,2 damage.

I looked in the logs and in there I can see 3 entries separated... should I've the report sum the 3 hits and report me the total when weapons are grouped?

[ 2011.11.05 01:45:28 ] (combat) Your Rift Citadel Torpedo hits NTT Neverdie [SDG]<SOLAR>(Erebus), doing 4002,2 damage.
[ 2011.11.05 01:45:28 ] (combat) Your Rift Citadel Torpedo hits NTT Neverdie [SDG]<SOLAR>(Erebus), doing 4002,2 damage.
[ 2011.11.05 01:45:28 ] (combat) Your Rift Citadel Torpedo hits NTT Neverdie [SDG]<SOLAR>(Erebus), doing 4002,2 damage.

(I want to say that the logs I copy to here are of armor hits and the titan was stopped.)

now the surprise...The titan starts aligning and I get this:

[ 2011.11.05 01:45:42 ] (combat) Your Rift Citadel Torpedo hits NTT Neverdie [SDG]<SOLAR>(Erebus), doing 2579,2 damage.

I will assume that the there is a bug because I do not want to belive a titan was tanking some damage by going 50m a second! It went from 4002 to 2759! no capital should tank another capital weapon just because its moving!!! please check this because that explosion velocity penalty in siege seems to be causing this!?

(later the titan died in a big of fire)

My final conclusions:

To use weapon Reconfiguration a pilot needs level 5. This means a 32 to 40 days training depending of implants and how the pilots attributes are mapped.

32 days is a long time! the only thing this module offers is a 20% damage bonus from a t1. The scan resolution bonus is a joke! the locked target bonus nobody cares since in a cap fleet we follow the primary and lock the secondary, having 3 targets makes no difference in a dread, the time it takes to kill a capital is big so we have time to lock another target before we kill the current one, no need for more.

So in the end, 32 days just for 20% more damage!

For a ship that we give very few use and wen it comes out normally goes in a fleet were there are other 30 to 40 capitals, that means my 20% more damage capability makes no difference at all in the middle of all the combined fleet DPS.

Nobody uses a dread alone, in a sub-cap 20% is a lot , but for a capital that is in a cap fleet, one or 2 having 20% more damage output is nothing in comparation with the total damage a cap fleet does, so nobody will lose its training time going after the skill L5.

Sorry but I don't see any reason to train to 5 just to get this module.

Having in mind that only a small % of the eve pilots fly capitals and from these pool only a even smaller %has a dread, and from that pool only a few really use them nowadays, this module is going to be very rarelly used... -> one dead horse

Please review its access conditions. To be used by dread pilots re-thing the level the pilot has to train the Tactical weapon Reconfiguration before it can use it. My recommendation goes to L4. If L5 is to stay them rethink the bonus this module gives in comparation to the t1 module, because like it stands is not worted and its a total waste of training time.

T2 triage module seems really underwhelming. Ohter than that, changes look good.

The T2 Drone upgrades really make it clear the Ishtar needs some more CPU.

T2 gang links seem okay. A nice boost over T1, but not too overpowered. I agree with other posters regarding T3 boosters needing a nerf though. Reducing boost amount and/or on grid boosting all seem reasonable ideas to me.

New siege module looks pretty good, bonus amounts seem fine to me. Totally agree on the underwhelming triage module.

if you took the time to invest in your skill plan properly you would see that FCS' still are better than t3 booster

Nope. For a highly advanced T2 Module like the Siege Module, 30 days are a reasonable amount of time.
You have to consider that we are talking about a capital ship, not a simple battleship or battlecruiser.
Capitals are, or should be (Ratting carriers go to hell!), not used for your daily activities, but are designed for very specific tasks.
And the task of a dreadnought is to kill big things quick. While the tank of a dread seems impressive at first glance, one must consider that most of their targets pack enough punch to break this tank without too much problem. That considered, a tanking bonus would be quite useless, as it would just delay the dead of the dread for a few seconds. A tracking bonus would be great, of course (and the Phoenix would absolutely love [and needs] a reduced explosion velocity), but it could easily break the balance of the dreads, more than any other possible bonus.

Regarding T2 ganglinks, I think that they should only be useable by FCS. T3 were just nerfed a few months ago when the scanning threshold was removed. Buffing them again would be a horrible, horrible decision. And players should of course be rewarded for actually fielding their commandship, instead of having a T3 at a Pos/ warping between safespots.

T2 triage is absolutely worthless. A immobile ship with about 180km locking range und 52km rr-range does not need 20% more target range.

If the devs responsibles could gives us some feedback on our feedback so we don't feel that we lost time testing and looking to the modules for nothing, thanks...

we are sensitive players, we need hugs and attention -> lets go, group hug between devs and players! -> feedback please.

I'm not sure I agree with this. For instance, let's say you're firing at target X for 100 dps. For 5 minutes. Target x has around 33k hp. You have to fire at it for more than 1 cycle, thus commiting for 10 minutes. Enter 20% damage boost. The target now is subject to 120 dps for 5 minutes, totalling 36k damage. Boom. You can now leave after the first cycle.

Another scenario: Fleet x is firing against a supercap. Supercap getting it for 20% more damage than before, with the same tank. Target goes down around 20% faster, meaning you take less casualties as well, since the enemy has less time to fire on you.

Another scenario: Fleet x is firing against a supercap. Usually it'd take around 100 dreads (easy number for example, ofc) to bring it down in time. With the 20% damage boost, you only need 84. It means you can attack or defend yourself more reliably even when momentarily low on numbers.

So, with this... I agree, it's not like having a normal damage mod on another ship. It's the siege mode on a dread... But it's still 20% boost. The 30ish days are kinda the bare minimum, perhaps it won't be a "hard" requirement for corp members, but I can see why it would be advised to train it. Afterall I'm training large autocannons spec for a whopping 2% increase in damage, and the training time is around the same.

boost the Sisters' Probe Launcher.
you are killing this module.

I think an additional 10% scan deviation bonus and 10% scan time bonus for the Sister's launchers would be nice.

Bomb Launcher II is... well... I would never train for it. Given the cost of what it will likely be on the market, even when princes are stable, it isn't worth the extra money given the fragile nature of stealth bombers and certainly isn't worth the extra training time to get it.

Sorry CCP. Still love you for the destroyer changes though.