Ships & Modules

I use them on tech I taxi/quick-small hauling frigs for my noob alts. And, I use them on cov ops frigs for my mains. They help get the total cap up so that you can cross big systems in one warp. I think I've used them on other ships, just can't remember. Oh yeah, on a curse or pilgrim if you don't want your cargo filled with cap charges.

Regardless, yes, the fitting reqs are sorta overdone for these. But always have been. I remember a suggestions thread on the old forums years ago where it was mentioned and the dev response, "we'll look into it." Of course nothing was done, so must be "working as intended."

[Osprey, POSprey]
Capacitor Power Relay II
Co-Processor II
Power Diagnostic System I

Large Peroxide I Capacitor Power Cell
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Y-S8 Hydrocarbon I Afterburners

Large S95a Partial Shield Transporter
Large S95a Partial Shield Transporter
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Nope!

No...they don't. Larger capacitor, same time to fill.

-Liang

Ed: To the OP, I used to use them on my nano Ishtar and it worked great. Couldn't squeeze a T2 on though. IMO the fittings really could use an adjustment... but they are still useful on certain ship sizes (cruisers, really)

Since not everyone may be aware of the fact that he's trolling:

Cap recharge rate is not an actual variable wrt how the game sees how much cap you have. You have one variable for total cap amount, and one for total cap recharge time. So, for example, doubling your total cap amount would double your cap/second recharge.

Pre-crucible there were two ways to make your Oneiros cap stable. One, cap booster. Great for short engagements with small gangs. Two, a large cap battery (peroxide) so you can run 3 x LRAR's perma. Of course, this one was lulsed out on Battleclinic, much like the ship scanner bhaalgorn was initially, but then again, everyone hated the Oneiros anyway.

Now that the Oneiros has had its slot layout fiddled to increase its tankiness, I'm not sure whether the large cap battery fit is viable anymore.

You can make a capstable armour cane for PVE with a large cap battery.

Generally, cap batteries work best with CCC's, to create a buffer energy tank (think Drake). I have yet to make a PVP fit anything where this is as successful as a cap booster, though, because the passive regen of your capacitor can't get above the neuting capabilities of one medium neut for a cruiser or BC fitting it, and luls as if you'd waste a midslot on a cap battery on a BS.

Just to help clarify, increased cap amount does increase recharge as well. Batteries can be useful on a number of ships like covops (if you don't have the right one), it can be good on a sacrilege if you don't want to or can't rely on cap booster and various other ships. It's not used a whole lot and yeah the fitting is a bit hefty but I don't see a real problem in that.

Cap Rech and Power Relays decrease the recharge time
Cap Battery increases the amount of cap regenerated per second

I said recharge, not recharge time :)

The CPU reqs might be a bit… odd, but over all, I don't think it's all that off that cap modules take a lot of fitting space.

Cap is life. Perhaps not in the same direct sense as armour and shield HP, but pretty darn close, and as a result, having a cap buffer mod that requires “pretty darn close” to the same fitting space as those HP buffer modules makes some sense.

And they do see a lot of use, but mainly for various cap-stable fits, which don't particularly work in PvP and which are slowly going out of style for PvE as well. It's no different than any other module really — they do what they do, and this makes them more suited for certain situations. Whether or not people choose to get into those situations will vary with tactics and over time.