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Wat.

cpu implant much?

I know what I would have to do to make it work but my point is that you shouldn't even have that problem in the first place!
Damnit, that should not be so hard to understand.

You know, every ship in EVE has this hidden section thats called "info" that gives you a hint, what you may want to put on it and for the Chimera is says the following:

Caldari Carrier Skill Bonuses:
50% bonus to Capital Energy and Shield transfer range per level
5% bonus to all Shield resistances per level
99% reduction in CPU need for Warfare Link modules
Can fit Tactical Logistics Reconfiguration modules
Can deploy 1 additional Fighter or Drone per level
200% bonus to Fighter control range

By the slot layout of the ship you may figure, why not put modules on it, for which I get a nice range bonus from?
Now you assemble the ship and maybe research, what others may have put on it and say give it a try.
Starting from the high slots downwards you begin with the triage module and take two capital energy transfer units I on it and you have the other two high slots free to put on the obvious capital shield transports on it.
By now you get a message from Aura, telling you that you ran out of powergrid to fit the second shield transfer unit and you may think, why?
As it states I should make use of these but I cannot fit them without a additonal powergrid upgrade?
It this some kind of a joke?
Anyway you put a power diagnostic system in one of the low slots and there you go, it all fits.
Now moving to the medium slots, you might guess that on a caldari ship, you probably should go for a shield booster and fit a capital shield booster I and to give that booster a litte assistence you give it a boost amplifier II.
So far so good.
Now you know that in triage mode, you will need anything your capacitor has to offer for you and your fleet mates, so instead of fitting some invul fields, you make everything else make your capacitor recharge as fast as possible and take the rest of the medium slots to fit capacitor rechargers II.
The remaining three low slot will get capacitor flux coils to not screw your shield booster down and the typical damage controll II but wait-
Haha silly me, I forgot the last medium slot and pick up another capacitor recharger and noes, that wont happen because you end up with 7 cpu points left.
You now have some choices by using very expensive meta 4 modules and those insanly expensive named captial modules and this fit is good to go but do you really want to five named captial modules on your ship that cost more then the ship itself with that premium insurance?
I know I would not, just saying.

Yes of course I did.
If you switch on shield xfer for a captial remote armor or hull repair unit, it'll be all fine and I will have to unlock and switch targets more often - yeay
-.-
On the other hand there are not many Caldari ships I know that have such fitting issues with fits for there bonuses, well except the Moa which still lacks at least 200 powergrid to be able to fit 250mm rails and a medium slot.
Except her, you will have no cpu or powergrid problems on any Caldari ship and fitting modules that get bonuses from in terms of shield boosters, hardeners and so on.
Hahaha, I forgot the heavy assault launchers which generate a lot of lacking powergrid issues, but I was talking about the Chimera here.
Anyway, I gave my feedback on the test server feedback section.

Use faction or meta 4 Cap power Relays, they use half the cpu of t2. Cap power relays are better than power diagnostics.

Sure its burst tank is lower, but your sustain tanking is much higher.

Actually Meta 4 Cap Power Relays have a lower shield boost penalty than T2 and the penalty is also stacking penalized. So it won't reduce your tank that drastically.

Bolded a very important part.

On top of this, the current tank of a triage chimera is on par with that of an Archon. A triage Chimmy would be OP if it had the same cap recharge as it has currently and no boost reduction. You are fitting a triage carrier incorrectly if you run into the problems that you claim you will.[/quote]

If "OP" means overpowered, I don't get it.
When I say something is overpowered then I talk about of firepower, speed and tank.
A triaged carrier will do zero harm to you or any of your mates on a field. Any Caldari ship who fits a shield booster may want to improve a shield boost per cycle by fitting that module.
An armor tanked ship may fit trimark pumps or nanobot accelerators which do the same and don't even need a medium slot or a low slot.
And my point still is that it should be able to fit that module.
If you think this is overpowered because you would have to shoot a few rounds more to take it down, I still don't get it.
There is a counter to a carrier, which in commonly known as supercarrier or titan. Both of them will simply not care if I have a shield boost amplifier on my carrier or not.

And for the last time, YES if you fit named capital modules this fit will do perfectly without any problems. The cost of that fitting on the other hand will cost more then the carrier + premium insurance itself.
And after some insurance changes, you don't even get 70% of what a carrier cost back from that insurance. I like to call that a pricy investment.
If you would take meta 4 modules for capacitor recharge it may work, I cannot answer that because meta 4 modules tend to be more expensive then the tech2 variants and I haven't tried them out yet.
I can image that all the alliances are swimming in isk and let themselves print isk with all thier bots and such, but I wouldn't even think of undocking in the first place.

I was implying you are completely off base. The premier shield triage carrier should be compared to the premier armor triage carrier. In that respect, until recently, the only real difference between the two was that the Chimera was ******* hard to fit. If you were able to fit a Chimera with comparable cap recharge to an Archon with the same number of slots devoted to tank (which you are more able to do now) without using capacitor power relay, the tank would be significantly higher than that of an Archon (this is where OP comes in). By fitting capacitor power relays, you reduce your tank to be similar to that of the Archon.

Also, Trimarks and nanobot accelerators? Really? You do realize that (a) the chimera can use the shield equivalent (Field Extenders and Operational Solidifiers), (b) it costs a rig slot (CCCs should be inserted here, amirite?) to fit those (significantly less effective) modules (rig slots ain't free, kiddo), and (c) nanobot accelerators, auxillary nano pumps, capacitor safeguards, and operational solidifiers do not work on capital mods, right?

You have just revealed your ignorance about the ships and modules that you are arguing about.

The Chimera still needs more CPU by my reckoning. However, I have not had a great amount of time to look at the fits in pyfa because the fitting changes have not come through. (TIL hitting F5 does not make a new pyfa build come through...)

At the end of the day, I do not see how this is a Chimera nerf (Topic: The capital shield tranporter buff or why it is another Chimera nerf thread).

Also, why the **** are you having trouble spending a couple mil on meta 4 capacitor modules and buying a triage carrier at the same time. If you cannot afford 10 mil for your low slots, then you should not be flying any battleship, much less a capital.

EDIT: The fits that I am interested in fit, but the cheaper equivalents still have issues fitting. (My personal choice for a four slot tank Chimera is both very expensive and uses 99.37% of CPU)

EDIT2: I do not see the reason to fit 2x energy transfers on a triage carrier, 1 would be enough. There is where I really run into CPU issues.

With that vein of thinking, because AF now have a MWD bonus. All fits must have and support MWD right?

And a Hyperion should be able to fit 8 Cormack's Neutron Blaster Cannons (they are bonused, after all), 2x Chelm's Cap Boosters (requirements for an active repping blaster Hyperion as much as a Triage Module is a requirement for a triage carrier...), and 2 (or six, by your logic) X-type LARs (also bonused)?

On the original topic, your logic suggests that you should be bitching about not being able to fit 4x cap transfers, not two.

I mean, really, by your logic, all ships should be able to fit a full rack of the largest bonused modules as well as any other unbonused modules that aid them. Your logic at the very least suggests that you should be able to fit 5x 425s on a cyclone and 3x hams with an x-large shield booster, two invuls, a shield boost amp, cap boosters, DCU, several gyros....