Ships & Modules

because "Cap Stable" is in green and the numbers are in red.

When I was more noob than I am now it was quite important to me. Psychologically, to run reppers constantly and thus have one thing less to bother during the fight. And objectively, when fight lasted an hour or two or more and for most of that time I took beating, for all things concerned I had to have unlimited cap. Only later I learned that with better skills and experience I can take more risky approach with lighter tank but heavier gank.

I think it's inevitable. Everyone has to get through this period and everyone has to grow out of it. What I do is when I talk with someone less experienced is to teach them: okay, for now if it makes you feel safe go for it but remember it's not the goal; train your stuff and at the same time observe your ship, how much can it take and how far can you push the envelope.

Red makes things go fastah!

Nice oversimplification

It's when you touch yourself while you're in bed.. notsureifsrs but a repper = armor repair unit and "pulsing" is when you don't run it constantly, but simply turn it on and off periodically while taking damage in order to make your cap last.

Dude, the answer to the cap stability question is simple; noobs do not understand the game very well, so they think being cap stable is actually very important, when in truth, there is much more to capacitor management than just being "cap stable", there are many factors involved.

A repper can be of any denomination or race. They typically will tell stories, by talking real fast in a poetic fashion, with rhythm, and curse words.
These stories can be very powerful and moving.

Sometimes the stories make other reppers mad, then they shoot each other and stuff.
If one dies, this is known as 'pulsing a repper'

I distinctly recall a time when I thought that once you "run out of capacitor" you were out... period. No recovery, no regeneration, no warping, etc... because that is how it sometimes is in other games. So it was important to always have infinite capacitor power ("cap stable") or to turn off everything when it got below the halfway point.

Only when I started PVPing did I realize, "hey... I used up everything but it's regenerating back!" *light bulb lights up over head*

I agree with this. When you're new to the game it can be one less worry. I just wonder why so many people hold on to it even when they get into a battleship.

I knew a guy who spent about 4 hours doing level 4's in a Raven. When I saw his fit of course not one BCS or missile rig... His answer "Well I wanted to be cap stable"

Generally an armor repairer, i.e. a module you activate to repair your armor. Can also refer to a shield booster, which does the same for shields. Both of them use a large amount of capacitor, so it's impossible to be cap stable while using repair modules without completely gimping your ship.

Of course, your capacitor naturally regenerates - and it reaches peak regeneration at around 35%, meaning that you want to avoid going much below that because then your capacitor will regenerate much more slowly, and you will consequently be able to repair less. If you use all your capacitor, any active modules you have will turn off, and you will be a sitting duck until your capacitor regenerates, which will happen very slowly.

See this page for a helpful graph: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Capacitor_recharge_rate

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