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I don't think I've ever ran a full rack on my Chimera. I've run 3 CSTs before and can run 2 stable 3 in triage stable (it's been a long time since I've done it). In reality, while the other 3 carriers can fit a full rack, they don't use it. In my highs I usually run 2x CST, CET, and a smartbomb. If I know I'm doing a POS rep even as a suicide I would still only run a max of 3x CSTs CET and triage.

Just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD.

I like what I see.

Would still prefer the hel to switch to armor, since a logistics-hub supercarrier using a different tanking type than nearly everyone around it is such an obvious, expensive lynchpin.

Cool story, so there need to be a armor boost amount set as a counterbalance to the crystal set.

The Hel still sucks, and in general you need to reduce the EHP difference between the SCs a heck of a lot more incidentally. Look at the difference between a properly fit and bonused aeon/wyvern vs the nyx or the Hel - it is far far too much. Bring them more into line, and give the Hel an actually relevant bonus.

Rag could probably use a bit more EHP to be in line with other titans.

Also, if you are feeling like a pro, get the nagflar to be ambi dextrous. Double bonuses and room for 4 launchers OR 4 guns (or any mix of the 2...) so minmatar dudes don't need to train twice the skills for capital weapons and supports. You have done this with one of the new t3 BCs I believe, so it is doable!

Yes I will be annoyed if you render 1.6 bil worth of slave set completely useless on my supercap dude, but c'est la vie. It would be a better balance.

20 fighter bombers and 20 fighters seems like a fair limit for SCs? No reason to limit them below that tbh

CCP if you really want to give the Hel the logistic role, then I suggest you :
- Create a new type of fighter. This new type is the cruiser size drone armor/shield repair
- Give the Hel a new Drones bay just for them, so a Hel could at least use regular bomber/fighters as currently and also been able to take 10-15-20 (?) cruiser size repairs drones.

Shield resist mods being more expensive than armor ones:

I like that explanation and hadn't thought of it, but I also think one of the issues is that there is no invul field on the level of the IN EANMs (28% resists) available from empire faction LP stores. Something like the Domination invul field (25%), maybe slightly better, from something that's not just drop-based would be nice.

You clearly haven't checked prices lately. The last CN Invuln I sold went for about 570 million ISK, and that was just a couple weeks ago.

Why would that incorporate any nerf? Did you not read what he wrote?
C-Type Invuls = Kaikka's
B-Type Invuls = Thon's
A-Type Invuls = Vepas'
(X-Type Invuls = Estamel's ... they do not exist, similar to X-Type EANMs which would correspond to Chelm/Draclira/Cormack EANMs and do not exist either).

Basically, like with EVERY OTHER MODULE IN EVE.
And like every Medium sized deadspace module, they will drop from 4/10, 5/10 and 6/10 plex overseer rats.

And he already wrote that this could also mean the introduction of armor crystals.

Oh my, oh my, RUN FOR THE HILLS.
And negligible compared to the gangbonus reload change. Shield fleets not losing massive HP amounts to travel and jumps during fluid engagements will have a much bigger impact. Oh, and a positive at that.

@CCP Tallest: btw, isn't it time for high-grade secondary faction sets? HG Nomad, Centurion, Harvest, Edge etc

How can you even compare EANMs to invuls? They give the same bonus, but they differ in one very obvious thing: One of them is active, the other one is passive. One of them gets high bonuses from skills, the other one doesn't.

Just to make myself clear: While the A-Type EANM says it gives a 28% bonus to all resists, it actually gives a 35% bonus after skills. And that is being a passive module.
A faction invulnerability field gives either +37.5% bonus, or it gives the +15% standard bonus when offline. Read: Neuted out, and neuting out a super isn't terribly hard considering you need a couple ten thousand DPS to kill it.

This is, implants aside, the one major reason for imbalance between shield and armor supers: Shield supers do not have a passive invulnerability field. They're factually required to run 7 active hardeners at once (invuls needing 2x the cap of the damage specifics too), while an armor super only needs to run 4 damage specific armor hardeners.

Add to this that shield supers have to sacrifice tank to fit shinies like sensor boosters and warp disruptors (which should not at all be shinies but required).

All we really need are passive invulnerability fields, balanced to not replace their active counterparts obviously.

False. In after you are a ragey wanker and you don't even think things through before posting them.

Take note that active hardeners are Gist, Pith, etc. (large size) while passive hardeners are Gistum, Pithum etc. (medium size). Therefore they will obviously drop from 7-10/10 sites. Also, X-Types would exist, because as they are Large size they have four tiers of deadspace. I don't know if you noticed this, but the reason only Large modules (like Heavy Nos and X-Large Shield Boosters) have X-Type variations is because Smalls drop from 1, 2, and 3/10, Mediums drop from 4, 5, and 6/10, while Larges drop from 7, 8, 9, and 10/10 sites: thus, having one more meta level available.

And, no, the gang bonus change doesn't make that huge a difference; unless you are bringing a Leviathan with you every single jump (I wouldn't be surprised lolol) it's 15% at most, which isn't THAT huge of a difference. (It's nice, but it isn't world-changing.) The big change will be in where Drakes, Vultures, Tengus, and more importantly Caldari capital and super-capital ships will be able to have 30 to 50 percent greater buffer tank. In conjunction with the leadership bonus change, the Wyvern would become the uncontested Number-1 largest tank in the game, while Tengus, Broadswords, Onyxes, and Vultures would gain even more ridiculous buffer/recharge tanks than ever before.

Next time please think before you post.