Ships & Modules

Simple - roll back the changes w/Revelations.

Before Revelations, active tanking was the only way to go, back then though people whined that many times they died "almost instantaneously as they jumped through a gate. They had no chance to do anything", so CCP decided that to make fights last longer, massive boosts in tanking were necessary. For those not around, I believe t1 hulls got 20% boosts in EHP, plates and shield extenders got 50% boosts and rigs were added. Such that active tanking a ship became very foolish indeed. As an interesting aside Hybrid weapons were the FoTM as they were the only ones w/enough DPS to chew through all that EHP before the next DT.

Many, many people warned that the HP boosts were insane and grossly OP, but CCP was undeterred. Now almost 6 years later Lasers and Projectiles have been boosted to compensate for the EHP boosts in Revelations, Hybrids are due some loving (since they weren't that bad until the speed nerfs), though active tanking is still a relic.

Well we could remove rigs from the game as a start, though I suspect that would break quite a few fittings (and CCP would never do that anyway). So here's a more realistic solution, reduce plates and shield extenders HP by 50% (i.e. cut their relevations HP boosts by 1/2) and remove the stacking nerf on shield and armor resist modules (both active and passive, don't worry hitting 100% resistance is still impossible). You must make a high resist/active tanking ship last as long or longer than a plated ship (preferrably longer since active tanking uses cap) under combat conditions. Right now it doesn't. Plates/extenders are simply too good.

That's where I'd start.

To be honest I don't know ;).

But they both should work the same way (for example rep at start of cycle). Wouldn't be the first time, when one thing is changed but others are untouched even if they are brothers (like local & remote armor rep).

Was more a reminder: don't forget to make same work similar if they aren't after a change ;).

No I think that's what I've heard too and honestly what drew me towards armor tanking when I started Eve.

I think Hirana Yoshida has a good idea in giving armor reps the ability to 'burst activate'. Maybe have Active Armor hulls have a bonus to heat dissipation for their reppers? Less heat buildup would mean shorter rep cycles and amounts for just that much longer and might give an edge in a fight.

one could also make rep amount bonuses apply to received reps. also, since the regenerative plating is seldomly used, it could give a bonus to reppers in addition to its armor increase (maybe make the rep amount bonus not apply to capitals).