Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Meta 4 ENAM, has no reason to exist, beyond invention.

The Algos and Legion use small rigs, and can use a sentry drone and two light drones at once.

If we're including rigs, I would like to nominate Capital Warp Core Optimizer. "This ship modification is designed to reduce a ship's capacitor need for initiating warp at the expense of armor amount."

Any capital ship has so much capacitor, that warping even the longest possible distance in EVE will consume less than 10% of your capacitor. And you recharge most of that back during the warp. As a drawback to saving a percent or two of cap in that once-in-a-lifetime warp, you lose 10% of your armor (and a rig fitting slot).

References:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=290938
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=17175
"Max warp distance" stats in EFT


A close runner up would be capital Emission Scope Sharpeners and Memetic Algorithm Banks - increasing the strength of your analyzer and hacking modules respectively.

Your still wrong about the, Energized Armor Layering Membrane II. While its true that the Reactive Armor Hardener can provide a similar amount of tank, the RAH can be neuted out, and has a relatively short cycle timer, making it more vulnerable. When you passive fit a cap, you are expecting really heavy neuting, your RAH would be rendered useless. Also useful when you want to max buffer against a known resist profile, and you have already stacking penalized the resist. Depending on the exact fit, can be superior to even deadspace EANMs. Jita trade volume shows there is a decent demand for them too. Jita median sales of the T2 variant for the last 3 months, ~120/day.

Now Layered Plating... that is a useless module, as the only things that Energized Armor Layering makes sense on rarely have CPU issues. Jita median sales of the T2 variant for the last 3 months, ~50/day.

Other Contenders:

Shield Flux Coil II - Always the wrong fitting choice - ~73/day

Capacitor Flux Coil II - I think there may actually be a use case, but I don't remember it - ~300/day

If you let me bring drones in:

Ewar drones other then ECM and Web - Even web is pretty bad, but all the other ewar drones are just terrible, even if they do technically work.

Amarr Light/Medium/Heavy Drones - Only reason to use them is role play, otherwise there is a better drone available.

T2 Shield Power Relay

Most useless module? Civilian warp disruptor. Has a warp jamming strength of.... 0! So it uses cap and takes up a slot for no effect.

Capital Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I & II, or are Rigs not counted either?

basically the armour layering mods need too be improved .. its HP has too be much higher than the resist percentage to be worth using much as you can see on ships usually 10% HP compared too 4% resists

Energized Armor Layering Membrane II is not that useless. Its essentially a low slot T1 trimark, with no velocity penalties (and requiring CPU). There are some applications where stacking another resist module would reduce overall EHP increase under links, thus making EALM a niche but worthwhile alternative in some armor buffer setups (especially when a RAH is not a good option due to multi damage type intake or juice consumption). This especially holds true to some buffer setups with slave links, since the EALM has no stacking penalties.

Layered plating is useless.

I nominate the stasis webifier II module. Why? Because:

The meta 4, the Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I, uses less cap, less CPU, and otherwise has the exact same stats as the stasis web II. Oh, that's not quite true, I suppose. The stasis web II has a heat absorption rate modifier of 0.02, as opposed to the meta 4's heat absorption rate modifier of 0.01. So I guess there's that. Assuming that's even a good thing, since I'm not quite sure how that modifier works.