Hyperion - Yes I completely agree with you. The hyperion doesn't technically need that 5th mid slot, but it was kinda useful. However, it will become a solo fleet pwning machine with that 7th lowslot I can promise you that.

Dominix - Perfect, this is exactly what I think the domi should do, unfortunately, you are making it more fleet-orientated in my opinion, but I may be proven wrong.

Megathron - 6 Lows? get out! you must be on some sort of crack or something because that is a REALLY bad idea. A megathron is fairly underused as it is. The only future I see for this, is a shield megathron, and that's only going to be for "lolroams" and not part of the pewpew in EVE. If anything, drop the Megathron's utility high slot, and replace the lowslot

The only thing the hyp ever seemed to do very well, was brawl at close range using a decent dual rep(or sometimes tripple rep) tank. It did it solo SOMETIMES, but usually the lack of utility high and lack of projection/application bonus made that difficult, so more often it was used in small gangs as a heavy brawler that would be supported by some other ships providing extra tackle so that it could focus on tank and gank. I think it was used at least as often for a shield tanked version that just focused on putting out damage, again with some support to provide supplemental tackle.

Moving the slot layout this way would hopefully reinforce performance around its bonus for armor repping. It would likely have to run 2 injectors, as it did before, and give up a piece of tackle. Since its primary purpose was not to tackle, but to absorb damage and dish it out, the low seemed more useful.

We are talking (as we have been for a couple weeks) about finding a way to allow the solo pilot (since this version should be better for anyone with support) to have the same access to tackle that it had before, without giving up the increased tank.

As I said in the OP, we are in a tough spot with the active armor bonuses. We don't want to throw them out, they are fun to play when they work, and we have hopes that we will continue to bring them into viability with other changes. That said, in the mean time we don't want to overcorrect for their current position in the meta.

Cap hungry active armor reps at BS level take too many slots to be effective. Frees up mid slots for cap boosters, adds valuable midslot to lows. +1

I do understand some statistics... I understood the comment as meaning that I had guessed wrongly about where all the damage is coming from.

For further sake of argument - Hyp is number 3 for pvp damage over the last 150 days. I know how many beers you drink, trust me!

I want to respond to a few of these points since they seem to be coming up a lot, though I'm not sure why.

First the tank - I showed you the armor tank that people are most likely to use, 2 plate, 2eanm, 1 dcu - this is the standard mega armor tank and its still completely viable. Now, you have the same tank, similar damage, but your ship goes faster and you have an extra mid. Seems like a fair trade.

And as far as the Talos. I would never expect this ship to compete with the Talos as a roaming kiter. That is not whats intended by "fast and agile". If you want to see some value from fast and agile, think about a situation where you have a new shiny armageddon tackled by your friend in a stiletto. The geddon is perma jammed by your friend in a blackbird. But! You have just jumped through the gate and are 35k away from the armageddon! Now, as you close in, the armageddon has 2 friends show up! An oneiros and a falcon. Now you have to make a run for the gate as fast as possible. This is just one example of where a BS's speed matters. If you are in a hyperion, you will struggle to get over there and apply damage in anywhere near the time-frame that this attack mega can. There's many other examples, but I just want to make the point that just because a ship can't kite as well as a Talos, that doesn't mean speed is not important.

As a final point for comparing BS vs Tier3 BC. Always consider the way they would perform vs each other. How does this new mega do in a 1v1 vs a Talos?

It already is, but not at massive rep ranges associated with dedicated logi ships.

Wrong.
25% ROF = +33% dps increase.

So: 1.33*7 = 9.31 for the Megathron.

and 1.5 *6 = 9 for the Hyperion