Lets say the mass allows 3 armor fitted caps, but allows 4 shield fitted caps what will be the consequences?

Allowing more than 3 capital to pass through the hole would be a huge problem for smaller groups, they will get blobbed even worse by groups who reckless abandon gank and take the maximum amount of capitals they can and rely on scanning themselves out through a different hole.

i feel very strongly that this will just further promote faggotry with more hero dreading etc to reduce risk because defending against in rollers will just be that much more harder....

after all, most of the people that roll in claim to be after "PvP" not butchering people in smaller groups that can't hope to defend themselves if their capital number superiority is now null and void.

What!? how did you take the insinuation that the attacking side will have an even bigger advantage post patch with the refitting change

if you up the mass, sure ok, i can concede that it might make a few small groups commit caps to a fight with another small group.
what it also does it guarantee that the large groups will always crush the smaller groups because theyll now be able to dump 4-5 caps on them rather than just 3 and the smaller groups lose home field advantage because they dont have access to 10 caps to out escalate an attacking force anymore and will be forced to defend with even or lower cap numbers against larger invading forces in fights they have no chance of winning far more often.

the general end result is a widening of the large corp vs. small corp gap in terms of what fights they can expect to stand a chance in which only leads to an N+1 mentality that isnt good for anything at all, ESPECIALLY not diversity of any kind.

none of this is rocket science, just think about what is really going to happen, not what you hope will happen in an idea world of butterflies and rainbows.

if you actually want to have WHs be return tripable in multiple caps, I get that, it would be nice. but flat upping the WH mass so that more caps fit through is NOT the answer.
the idea solution IMO would require a rework of the mechanics to allow cap ships (possibly any ships?) to return through a jumped WH without adding mass to it.
eg: you could take 3 caps through a 3bil WH 1 way, OR you could take 2 in and back without closing the hole.

PS: any mass changes the the cap ships themselves will obviously need to be reflected in the WH masses too, that's a completely separate issue.