brick tank, thats why

Furthermore, any suit that comes near you they will light up like a Christmas tree and whether you get scanned doesn't even matter. You have mid ranged weapons too anyone who gets close to you flux nade them then drop all their armor.

Ok, replace 1 precision enhancer with a extender and 1 damage mod for an extender or energiser

sorry but you also cant fit 2 plates and a rep on a min assault i didn't catch you on that earlier.

Why not

5 high 2 low

Ok then ditch the reactive plate for complex rep, 2 or 3 hp/s is laughable

you cant fit the complex rep with the complex armor plate with 4 complex extenders and a complex damage mod with the six kin combat rifle and smg 462/420 cpu and 89/84 pg

Use a adv armor plate and no one said use 4 extenders...3 or SACRIFICE something, like your proto smg..........

STD: (85 armor, 3 PG, 10 CPU, 3% penalty) vs (44 shields, 2 PG, 15 CPU, 3% penalty)
ADV: (110 armor, 6 PG, 22 CPU, 4% penalty) vs (58 shields, 4 PG, 32 CPU, 4% penalty )
PRO: (135 armor, 12 PG, 30 CPU, 5% penalty) vs (72 shields, 7 PG, 55 CPU, 5% penalty)

The fittings are balanced at 1 pg=5 CPU, while the real average at prototype level of suit is 4.7-5.2 CPU per PG
The HP amounts are scaled the same from PRO-STD and PRO-ADV (same % change)

Also, nerf gallente and ammarr shield regen/delay/depleted by 50%, and buff caldari like they are in the next patch, and then make minmitar shield recharge/delay/depleted delay 15% better than caldari in 1.8

ok, ima make an attempt to reply to people; but all I ask is cut me some slack atm, as I didn't sleep at all last night (literally been up 24hrs), so I feel like complete sh*t right now.

1). Yes, armor has no "innate" repair; though since haven't seen the changes of 1.8 that may be altered now. However, you do have repping plates, repair modules, repair nanohives, repair tool as which help boost your repair that and repairs even while taking fire. Shields, have the recharge rate and that alone, and the delay occurs each time and damage is taken

2). Reason I have # at 50/75/110, besides a simple skill bonus calc factor, was it makes basic and adv extenders worth it. It allows NEW PLAYERS who shield tank not to get ass fu*k right off the bat of a 40-60 hp health difference right off the bat. That and remember, even if I said wanted shields to be at 200hp at proto level, it wouldn't really mean much b/c of the FLUX grenade, as at 12k SP no matter your shield suit or amount it drops to 0 anyway

3). This be a long "answer", as will have an example, so stay with me .... Saying that armor tanking won't be viable if my ideas are done .....ex:.....

Caldari Assault Vk0
Complex Extenders x2 (220hp 125 delay, 100/14)
Complex Recharger (48% , 90/0)
Complex damage mod (58/9)
Kal RR (76/14)
Toxin smg (14/3)
Flux grenade (12/2)
Ishni Nano (44/11)
Complex Regulator (44% , 35/3)
Basic Armor Repair (20/1)
Basic CPU upgrade

This example gives you 482 shield & 150 armor = 632 ehp w/ 1 damage mod, w/ a 36 shield recharge amount, w/ ~3sec delay, ~4 sec depleted delay

Gallente Assault Vk0
Complex Plate (149hp, 30/12)
Enhanced Plate (127, 20/6)
Advanced Repair (5 [as would want reps changed to 2-4-6]... 35/5)
Militia CPU Upgrade
Allotek Nanohive (66,16)
Flux Grenade (12/2)
Toxin smg (14/3)
Boundless CR (74/8)
Complex Extender (110, 50/7)
Complex Damage Mod x2 (116/18)

This suit has 538 armor & 260 shield = 799 ehp w/ 2 damade mods

So, in this type of setup, you get 167 more ehp and 2nd damage mod in the armor tanked suit, along w/ a base 5hp armor regen, and a "combo" hive of giving you ammo and 40armor per sec, so in time a shield takes to start its complete delay, with a allotek hive down, you'd recover ~40% of your armor. How is it that armor wouldn't be able to compete w/ my said changes again?

Also, those fits are not really ideal. The comparisons are loaded - you're shield tanking that Gallente assault partially, so why use it as an example in a shield vs armour comparison?
Given the possible new regen value for the Callassault, you may not need that recharger. That leaves you with 625 shield HP at 40 HP/s with a 3/4 delay, a damage mod, and an unhindered speed.

TBC

4). Also remember, as said before, one flux grenade and it doesn't matter for shield, you are essentially dead, as if get hit by a flux that person is right there w/in 10m so it'd be 1-2 shots/bursts of a gun and you are dead. With that said, as it implies, shield tankers main buffer is their primary hp source; whereas armor tankers initial buffer is their 2ndary source, which based on my alterations is 1/2 that of a shield tankers primary buffer source. So, lets say both players do 470 damage to each other, shield are gone leaving you 150 armor hp ; where as the armor suit still have 328 armor hp. You have twice the hp source left, along w/ having your armor rep asap, and can thrown down a supplied hive to be at almost full armor once the shield tankers shields even start to regen; so you'd be looking at 150 hp vs 490hp