So um. I emphasized in your post where you are being an "armchair coder" and a "game dev".

Have a nice day.

So,please explain exactly how is it worth training 4 skills to level 5 now that previously gave a bonus and are now worthless to most of us that trained them in the first place?

So if you do decide to do this, then remove the sig radius penalty on shields then!!!

Perhaps you should use less oxygen hyperventilating over carebears and think for a second yourself, this thread is full of those who trained these skills for something that is being taken away (The passive resist on ACTIVE hardeners that has been available for years)
Again, how are these skills worth a damn now to those who solely trained them for the reason that is being removed.,... ACTIVE shield tankers??

They are not.

We are now stuck with 4 skills trained to lvl 5 for something we will most likely never even use now.

But please, blame it on the careberars and anyone who doesn't play in the sandbox according to your rules rather than a stupid nerf ending up with worthless skills taking up clone costs now.
I'm sure the community will be just as empathetic when the stealth nerfbat comes around and hits an entire skill set you took the time to train to lvl 5 and is now just as worthless.

Tao, you seem to want to engage with me on this, in terms of Axe's comment, my backing of his comment was in regards to which ships it had the biggest impact on, though I do still think the Talos is viable, his comments aimed at your style of play or your comments on this thread have no interest for me whatsoever. Your own comments have done the talking for you, I don't need to add anything to them, rather like when I let off steam on this in terms of the signature radius penalty on shields, perhaps shields will get some skill along the lines of armour honeycombing, or perhaps not which is the point I was trying to make. No matter what your comments are, the fact is that without a passive module covering all resists for shields, the neuting of shield ships is going to be a lot more effective. That CCP decided to do this knowing full well that the passive bonus was originally added to nerf neuting shows that they are likely to want this to stop people using shields on armour ships and use the new armour modules. The knock on effects of this are profound in some areas, while a Chimera is not really a very effective PvP carrier, it can be fitted for PvP for when you get caught, however the fit now has to be based on passive modules and nerf's its tank by around 8% on the best fit I could come out with, however its acceptable. Like always I will sort out my new tactics around the current situation, however I am sad to not be able to use a couple of ships in their full glory now that this is being applied tomorrow. Have fun...