Ships & Modules

I may just be losing my mind here but I recall the above mentioned module in the past rang true to its name and adapted to incoming damage.

Now it seems that its just an active hardener that provides blanket resists to all shields

Armor still had a module with this effect in the "Reactive Armor Hardener". Armor also has a blanket resist module in the form of the "Adaptive Nano Plating"

Did I miss a patch note that outlined this change?

Is there a "Reactive Shield Hardener" to come out in the future? If not that seems a tad imbalanced in favor of armor.

If I did actually miss the patch notes could someone please provide a link to them so I may read further?

Thanks in advance! Fly Safe

So it in fact never operated like that? I would have sworn it used to have a base 15/15/15/15 and adjusted to the incoming damage

I don't want them to be exactly the same. it just seems imbalanced to me as if an armor tanked ship would be "harder to gank" because it can best tank whatever is shooting at it and ignoring the other damage types

It used to have passive resists when it was turned off. Could be where you remember the 15/15/15/15 numbers from.
Sadly, that got nerfed when Drake phobia took over the internet.
That's about as close to 'adaptive' as it ever was.

reactive hardener is based on the percentage of incoming dps within the last cycle.

If you had trained the (4 skills) EM/Therm/Kin/Exp Shield Compensation (3% per lvl) to lvl 5 then the Invulnerability Field was was inactive you had 15/15/15/15 resistances. When the Invulnerability Field was active it was like today (no passive bonus).

There used to be a time when people used nano-fit Drakes in significantly sized fleets. It was kinda broken (60 to 80k ehp, 300 to 400 dps that never missed out to 70km, and pushing past 1100 to 1300 m/sec).

This was before the Battlecruiser rebalance and Heavy Missile nerf though.


Back on topic:
Yes OP... you are going crazy.

The Adaptive Invulnerability Field never "adapted" to anything. It is a misnomer (just in the same way "Insurance" in EVE is not like any actual insurance system in any way).
The same is true for the [Energized] Adaptive Armor Plating.

With the Reactive Armor Hardener... it is less useful than you might think.
While it gives some decent resistances that are only stackable against the Damage Control Unit... it takes several 6 second cycles to alter the resistances in a way that matches incoming damage and requires a fair bit of capacitor power during that time.
Generally you don't see them used on anything smaller than a cruiser.


As for the matter of equivalency...

- shields have the Ancillary Shield Booster
- armor has the Ancillary Armor Repper
- the problems are that...
----- the AAR require capacitor AND nanite paste (while ASBs require only cap boosters and draw no ship power until those charges are gone)
----- The AAR is limited to one such module per ship (while ASB has no such limitation)
- so armor was given one more "special" mod to compensate for the ASBs being "better in every conceivable way."