Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Wondering what module you are rambling on about here, so off to the fit tools (PYFA and EvE HQ) I go to see if I can locate this magic module I had never seen before.

So I started my search at the "energized armor layering" module group since I had dismissed them when writing my initial post. Did I miss something there? Answer is no I did not, as I had initially thought they do not offer any boosts to your resistances, since the OP specifically mentions resistances in his post I will again dismiss this entire group of modules. But before I do I will point out that all of these do require cpu from a low of 20tf to a high of 30tf.

Moving on to the "energized adaptive plating" modules as a group and this time looking at all versions of them instead of just the T1 metas and the T2 as the OP mentions. All of them offer various levels of boosts to your resistance as specifically mentioned by the OP so we are at least in the right group. But no where do I see one that has 0tf cpu. In fact they range from a low of 24tf for the 'Pilfer' Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane to a high of 40tf for several of the Officer variants.

Now I want to deal with the skills aspect as a separate and it is clear that you do not understand this portion of my comment. I do not care that there is a module that only requires a level 1 skill. It was the REQUIREMENT for the level 5 skill to use the T2 variant that I was commenting about. And that is still true, for a new player who has virtually everything to train or an SP limited Alpha character using training time or skill points on a level 4 and level 5 skill may not be the best option.

So we get to the end of this post and I am still left with the question. Just where do I find this adaptive module that offers better resistance boosts to armor than the meta 0-4, uses 0 cpuAND only requires a level 1 skill to fit?

They will be tiericiding weapon systems first, then i think all these tanking modules are next...

so like in 5 years it will be done.

You forgot to mention the faction nano plates which are exactly the same as T2.

Yes. Armor is supposed to have more EHP, while shields are supposed to rep faster. Back before tiericide, shield tanks were just plain better because they actually had the same EHP as armor, and also because damage mods were utterly vital to beating OP logi. But CCP forgot how the game was supposed to work, and they left logi OP while buffing remote armor reps and forgetting about onboard reps because nobody but mission-runners and newbs use them. So now we have the same EHP on armor and shield tanks, the same rep rate on armor and shield logi, slightly OP shield tanks for solo PVE, and weak yet cap-efficient armor tanks for solo PVE if you are willing to warp out every 5 minutes because you don't have any EHP.

Armor only gets a slight margin on armor EHP on cruisers and battlecruisers because they can fit 1600mm armor plates but there's no equivalent shield extender. Battleships don't have any decent armor plates or shield extenders, so they just use trimark and extender rigs.

What could be tweaked is the Armor Compensation skill providing passive module bonuses to Energized and not the Nano.

CCP needs to finish what they start and stop quitting half way through a game phase/update.

It's a ~30% HP increase, which is better than the never-used armor layering which only grants 15%, but the main reason to ever use it over an adaptive invulnerability field on a battleship is stacking penalty because you already have two of them--or on a battleship with low shield HP that wasn't meant for shield tanking. It doesn't cost much less CPU. It's not a good module for battleships at all, it's just marginally useful. The lack of larger shield extenders hurts battlecruisers and battleships without precedent.