Skill Discussions

That gives a 2% cap reduction for armor repairers the same way shield comp reduced cap use on shield boosters?
Just curious.

An active armor tank and active shield tank aren't intended to work the same way. The repair system skill reduces cycle time on the armor repair module so cap requirement actually increases!

There are quite a few differences in the way that armour and shield tanks work (for example there is an armour module that reacts to the damage types you receive, but no equivalent for shields).

The game is more interesting when not every system is exactly the same as every other one (consider guns vs missiles vs drones) so lets keep it that way rather than call for each weapon type to be exactly the same as every other, and call for exact equality between armour and shield tanking.

Shield Compensation - Repair Systems
Shield Operations and Armor Layering are the other skills that are not shared but they are pretty different

I personally see the skills are ways of fixing something.

Shields have a fast cycle and use too much cap - Cap Reduction Skill
Armor have slow cycle and use less cap - Cycle Time Skill.

Hah. Depends whether you're talking about armor or shield.

Armor consumes nanite paste as ammo but also uses cap. When loaded, their boost is much larger.

Shield consumes cap boosters but don't require cap. Well, they can run without cap boosters, but if you try it they'll basically kill your cap in a single cycle.

Both have long reloads during which the module is of course inactive.

Good discussion here.

don't be so quick to judge the ancillary reppers. there is a reason they are worth quite a bit. and they are very effective.. in pvp

I thought real men PvP without their pod