Last year in the armor tanking 1.5 thread I already said that medium and large armor reps need a reduction in cycle time and a reduction in capacitor use.

The reason why the medium tech2 armor rep + an 800mm plate works well in some cases is that you need the extra armor layer for the rep cycle to hit.

In case of the medium tech2 rep, a lot can happen in 7.7 seconds and 160gj on a 1600gj capacitor is very taxing.

If some people took thier time to read and comprehend, what I was proposing, they would realize that it wasn't unreasonable.

For the lazy one, here are some numbers to stare at:

zee current tech2 medium armor rep haz
15 seconds cycle time
needs 160gj capacitorz

wiz ma proposal iz wood be,
10 seconds cycle time
needs 80gj capacitorz

or in other wordz -33% cycle time and -50% capacitor usage for zee tech2 medium armor rep.

I waz noze talking about -º$%//%$" deadspace or -º%&$" officer reps.

The idea behind that was that a reduction in cycle time increases your capacitor usage a lot and since some ships benefit from having two reps fitted that reduction in cycle time will be hurting your capacitor, even if you inject cap boosters.

In case of the Hyperion,
the reduction of cycle time in addition to the capacitor usage would give your battleship mwd a little more cycles before capping you out.

A beam laser boats might like it even more since those beams tend to highly capaitor dependend, also even when injected.

Assuming I didn't think about what I was doing with these numbers is simply put false.

Imagine a cruiser - and leaving HACs out of this scenario - with a rep that uses less capacitor will help kiting a little longer with its mwd on.

Now about that reduced cycle time,
if I am not mistaken a tech2 medium armor rep with one accelerator rig will have a cycle time of 5.5 or 5.4 seconds instead of the 6.5 second it now has - with heat on.
Now imagine what will happen to your capacitor with the current 160gj capacitor usage.

I was simply putting numbers to some suitable ideas that were not coming from me alone.

Remember that all guns and missiles got buffed but armor reps cannot keep up with the damage you will find on the field before even one cycle can land.

An assumption about my level of intellingence with only taken one post into account is not viable.
You may have noticed that I posted in the forums even before last week.

And posting in a forum, in a language that is not my native language in emphasis to help active armor tanking on none bonussed, low capacitor ships is a courtesy of mine and should be taken as a token that I care.

I could insult you back but I will let it go this time.