Ships & Modules

I'd say drop the omni tank and run specific hardeners for missions. This leaves the last rig slot open so you can fit a flare catalyst. Also trade the Damage control II for a fourth Ballistic Control.

With the target painter you might want to consider dropping one of the rigors for a second flare.

Just my thoughts.

so switch back to the CNR. CNR has the damage application bonus, where the SNI has the tank bonus. and IMO at a high level a tank bonus is almost worthless in lv4s.

3 rigors if you're using T1. 2 rigors and a flare if you're using T2.

T2 rigor > T2 flare, always.
T1 rigor > T1 flare, always.

I find the 4th balistic control quite ineffective tbh, to much penalty to make it worth it.... unless it's just to fill low slot space.

As someone who actually flies both of these ships...

Go back to the CNR. The SNI has a pretty steep tank but the CNR simply has the better damage application. There aren't very many missions you need the SNI's tank and the CNR will earn you more isk/hour since it's tearing through missions faster. Only time I fly the SNI is on the few missions with a ton of battleships so I can afk salvage.

Also, never run an omni-tank unless it's necessary. You only need to pump 2-3 different resists per mission. After you run them a while, you'll get a good idea of what damage types to fit for. Google is your friend.

My SNI Fit is something like:

[High Slot]
6x T2 Cruise Missile
1x T1 Salvager

[Mid Slot]
2x Target Painter
3x Passive Shield Hardener
1x T2 Adaptive Invuln
1x Sensor Booster / 1x Shield Boost Amp / 1x MJD
1x T2 Medium Shield Booster

[Low Slot]
4x T2 BCU
1x T2 DCU

[Rigs]
3x Rigors (?)

Always kept Mobile Depot and MTU on me. Drones for frigs, cruise for everything else. With the resists, the medium booster can be left running almost permanently and negates almost all of the incoming damage.

I'm having a hard time understanding this.

I'm not even sure how you're giving off the min-max attitude when you're omni-tanked against 2-3 damage types. You're wasting slots that could be better used for projection, utility, or mobility. Not even that, I mentioned a Mobile Depot in my post.

So, really, what's worse - Wasting slots or waiting 60s to refit?

The answer is knowing the mission beforehand. Personally, I keep the mobile depot on me if I want to MJD and snipe everything.

I'm just going to assume the fit you posted above is what you're referring to.

In which case, your "omni-resist" is effectively a single Adaptive Invuln. Sure, you may have decent tank but 0 damage application. 2 TPs is nice but with 0 rigors, you're clearing even slower than I am. You also wasted slots on MJD + MWD. You only need one or the other, plus the cap recharger, plus the CPU low mod.

There's a reason you fit a LSB while I fit a MSB - I don't need that much shield boosting. The fit I posted not only gives you enough tank but also offers damage application (Rigors + TPs). You can even leave the MSB running through the entire mission and come out just fine.

I'm not saying your fit is bad, however, my fit doesn't have to sacrifice rigs or mid/lows on fitting mods to achieve the same amount of tank as yours with better damage application.

My example fit is definitely a lazy mans fit, hence the omni resist. Having both a MJD and a MWD fitted is quite handy actually and speeds things up in a lot of missions. Again, I could setup a fit specific for every mission, but that fit is capable to do any missions so why change it. Changing the fit everytime so you might finish a mission 2 minutes faster is neglectable and in the long run does not really matter. My fit does have more tank then yours btw, though it's only really needed for missions like Worlds Collide where you have a lot of incomming dps.

I cba to argue the specifics of each of your fits, but my tank is a Booster, 2x invluns, and a cap injector for almost every ship. Leaves plenty of room for damage mods, application mods, prop mods, and sometimes more. Note that the navy scorp gets a damage resistance bonus on top of all that (also feel free to note I called that a useless bonus earlier).

resist rigs, just no (well maybe if you are flying a pirate BS that is also used for incursions)

Specific hardeners are a good idea while learning, but at some point they just become an annoyance. If you are going to use 2 invluns and 3 individual hardeners to have an "omni tank" then yes dropping to 3 specific hardeners is a good move. but when you can run everything with 2 invluns why bother swapping hardeners out.

Uhhhh....

The RNI can probably get away without using Rigors/Flares and still apply good DPS. The SNI has no inherent scaling, so you're only hurting yourself in that aspect.
Then again, if you're heavily focused on DPS, you're probably not using the SNI. For missioning, there's no real reason to use the SNI over the RNI. The SNI has tank that's really not necessary for Lvl 4's and no bonus to application.

Besides, let's say you're running Blockade, which would you rather do, MJD to safety or face-tank the next 8 waves?