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Some really cool stuff to look forward too nice work.

Very disappointed that Carriers will not get to use Heavy Fighters (Fighter Bombers), that was one of the changes I had wanted to happen and it looked like it would in some of the early information on the change, would make Carriers more interesting if they could use them as well, and not only be the domain of Super Carriers and Citadels.

Capital Emergency Hull Energizer
Doomsday immunity. Did I read that correct?

Also, I can refit a new one after 20 sec cycle is over, and start a new cycle - is that legit? It makes my ship almost invulnerable if I click fast enough. Which makes me think I've got something wrong.

The fighter skill needs to be at 1 in order to inject to skill books to use light,heavy, support fighters. So you only need Fighters to use them. It follows the same structure Tree as its in. The drone skill is only required to use drones. You need to train Light, medium, heavy to use them tho.

Inject fighter book and take to 1: then the prereqs for lights,supports,heavy are filled and you can inject and train them.
Each class book will buff that class fighter.

Same as it is now with drones :)

The big question is.. What will happen to our wonderful fighters. Will we still be able to launch them from our capitals OR as noticeable in other blogs, They look to become a Citadel only weapon as cits can't use squads but can use fighters.

BTW this totally needs to be renamed to Reworking some Capital ships. The hell is happening to our Rorqual, some news besides the hints a eve down order would be nice. It is.. a Capital ship you know.

I mentioned this at Eve Vegas, and a few pilots thought the idea might have merit.

Instead of refitting capitals during combat, maybe have dual use modules with long cycle times? For example, a low slot module that gives bonuses similar to a magnetic stabilizer when off, but when activated works like an adaptive nano. Or a midslot that provides cap regen while off, and works as a shield boost amp when on.

My question is, if two pilots are doing PvE in carriers, or nestors, why should they be disallowed from refitting off each other if they are aggressing each other?

There's numerous people out in null who smartbomb rat, and use carriers to do so. Why penalise that refitting mechanic if it's one guy with two alts doing a site?

Sure if either of the carriers gets aggressed, he can't refit. That makes sense. Then if the other carrier assists the first one that can't also refit because it inherits the timer, also makes sense.

I'd say maybe consider making corporation combat, where legal, to not incur a weapons timer. I can't think of any situation where that doesn't make sense so long as absolutely no actual "combat" is taking place, wherein someone outside the corporation would always be involved and thus give everyone an actual "weapons timer" that relates to combat.

Just a though (or several).

Don't forget, it's a capital mod. So how many you can burn through could be limited by size.

The paragraph about refitting is high up there amongst the dumbest things I have ever seen in a dev blog so congratulations to team five-0 for that!

A refitting timer of 60 seconds means that a faux is a suicide machine against any competent opponent, and NOT just in large fights, but even more important in small fights too, unless the base stats of the faux' get made so amazing that in return they are extremely overpowered. You might tell yourself you are not trying to "fix" the evil boot blob, but if you release this patch like this, once again you will kill off a whole ton of content on the lower end of scale because you listened to the idiot voice in the back of your head going on about how cool you will look in the eyes of all the shouting masses. But then again, this is what CCP seems to specialize in as of late so oh well, it's your own game you are breaking vOv

What's with the T2 variants of capital modules mentioned earlier?
T2 Guns, T2 Reppers, ... Are they still a thing?

I don't buy meaningful choices bullshit regarding combat refitting.

Pilots do have to make meaningful choices during the fight all the time, combat refitting or not. Positioning, overheating, module activation, target priorities.

With siege/triage/bastion you don't really have that choices. You aren't positioning, you don't have to worry about overheatng propmods, points and webs, you have all the time in the world to watch modules because you aren't flying anywhere.

Combat refitting does not absolve you of choices. Quite the contrary, it puts your chocies on the clock.

The problem with eve and meaningful choices is that most of them are made during ship spinning. Battles are fought and won in EFT and on dscan. Most of the time "fighting" consists of undocking the right fleet composition to counter the adversary. Apart from baiting there's very little room for actual choices on field. This is boring. This sucks.

Choices should be brought back to the battlefield. Because it puts them on timelimit. Making the right choice in dock after assessing the enemy capabilities and under generous time constraints is easy. Ergo boring. Making the right choice under pressure is hard. Ergo rewarding.

Combat refitting should stay an option at least for those ships that are stripped of the choice of positioning. They need choices apart from cycling modules on cooldown and locking on broadcasts to be fun.

So If I read that right,

If I have a Triage module on the ship, when the changes come, The Ship will Valmorphanize into a FAX carrier.

...cant wait to see the replacement carrier bonuses then because that will influence the decision of "on or Off" with the module !

Nice ! Can't wait.