As a matter of record, a triage Archon with two meta local reppers, three remote reppers, and one remote cap transfer (plus an EANM and DC, and the rest cap regen) is fully capable of solo-tanking escalations, even in a C5 Cataclysmic Variable. Our standard setup is precisely as above, and we live in a C5 CV. With two local reppers and links from an command ship, a Triage Archon can tank a maximum of about 8663 DPS (8800ish with a second EANM instead of the DC, but we prefer the extra hull buffer just in case), and is nearly stable doing so even with a full double-wave (first carrier, first dread) of 12 Sleepless Guardians neuting it (it's 64% stable without the neuts, and still lasts 7 minutes on cap with all 12 neuts on it 100% of the time with both local reppers working 100% of the time as well).

Now, each Sleepless Guardian does 694 DPS, so a wave of 12 does 8328. Said carrier can tank them just fine.

Well, if it means you have to field, say, 4 chain archons instead of 1 triage and 1+ drone DPS carriers, I'm not sure your "it's faster" is actually applicable.

I mean, as long as the Moros never don't have a target, you're not gaining any speed either way. Even when we're fielding 3 Moros instead of 2 (more than that and targeting/webbing gets too chaotic), we have almost no downtime in the site for escalations.

Still, if it's too much for ye, move to a system that doesn't have a local rep penalty...

So move to a non-Cataclysmic? I'm also not too sure how you manage to coordinate targeting and webbing with that many dreads on field. Even with 3, it gets rather chaotic. 5-6 dreads, you're going to have a lot of targeting overlap, BSes dying while others are still locking them, two dreads shooting at the same target, etc, and actually getting webs on all of those being shot will be nearly impossible (especially since it takes those BSes like 30 seconds to slow down from full speed).

As much as I hate to suggest it, it would make more sense to make it a penalty to energy rr range in CVs than amount (given cv generally has a boost to remote assistance amount), bringing tactics back into play to break the energy spider.

Hey guys. Thanks for the continued feedback.

We understand the concerns some of you have with the CV changes, and we'll be watching them carefully. However the combination of larger cap pools, increased cap regen (up to 33% more in C6) and the huge bonuses to remote repair combine to create an environment that we are pretty confident clever players can use to their advantage.

Even with the cap transmitter penalty logistics cruisers can generate much more cap than they use, and combined with the added internal cap regen there will be tons of defensive options.