Wormholes

According to the wiki, cataclysmic wormhole should give bonus in capacitor capacity and capacitor recharge. I'm living in a C3 with a Null static so I used it to make some tests.

When I jump to Null sec with my fitting window opened, I can clearly see that I'm loosing a bit of capacitor capacity but my capacitor recharge and my deplete time remain the same. Anyone could explain me why?

Thank you.

Haven't checked in awhile but the ingame fitting window often doesn't show wormhole system effects properly or even at all depending on the effect unless they've fixed it recently.

As far as I understand, it simply increases your capacitor capacity. But since your capacitor recharge increases linear towards your capacitor capacity, this would buff your capacity recharge enormously if it wasn't offset by increasing the capacity recharge time. This is what is happening in a cataclysmic system, your capacity is increases just as much as your capacity recharge time.
An example:
A ship with a 1000GJ capacitor capacity and a 100 second capacity recharge time gives it a capacity recharge of 10GJ/sec.
The same ship in a C4 cataclysmic system:
1680GJ capacitor capacity and a 168 second capacity recharge times gives it the same capacity recharge of 10GJ/sec.

...as long as I'm not wrong (haven't lived in one by myself)

The wiki is correct, you're just interpreting what it says wrong.

In a cataclysmic wormhole, your capacitor gets increased by xx % (depending on class). In general this will also mean that your capacitor recharge will increase as well, since all ships have a base time for the cap to recharge fully, and thus if you increase the capacitor capacity and the base time for cap recharge doesn't change, your cap/s recharge will increase.

CCP only wanted to double your total capacitor but leave your cap/s recharge the same, so they added an affect to increase your capacitor recharge time by xx %. This increases the time for your cap to refill from 0 to full, so it's actually a debuff not a buff. The wiki really should say "Capacitor Recharge Time" rather than "Capacitor Recharge".

You'll notice that in a Pulsar, there is a "Capacitor Recharge" bonus of -xx %, so in a Pulsar, your cap/s recharge will increase.

As a side note the cap recharge does't work like that, the recharge rate in gj/s is the peak recharge rate actual time to recharge 1000gj with a peak rate of 10gj/s will be more than 100s. The rate varies depending on % of cap left with the peak somewhere around 30% with a steep slope from 0 to 30 and a longer drop from 30 to 100.

In practice, a Cataclysmic is a serious buff to any RR gang. I lived in a Cataclysmic for several months, and because you're using fewer cycles of your repper to rep cap buddies, actual capacitor issues are tremendously reduced for the gang as a whole.

The numbers might lie, but the gameplay does not. If you use remote rep in a Cataclysmic, your net capacitor use is dramatically reduced. If the Sleepers neut you, the impact of the neuts are dramatically reduced because your capacitor is so much larger. If you use a local rep in a Cataclysmic, you're asking for more-challenging gameplay :)