So now update 1.8 is out and with it we now have heavy suits for all the races. All I can say to that is it is about time. That aside I move to my point for this thread.

Amarr and Gallente heavies have the benefit of logistic armor repair. Caldari and Minmatar on the other hand do not as it is far less effective on them as they do not have the room to bolster their armor for survivability. at the proto level a Caldari sentinel has 4 high slots and 1 low slot. a Minmatar has 3 high slots and two low slots. both of these set ups make both the Caldari and the Minmatar a primary shield tanker. where as the Amarr and the Gallente are primary armor tankers. logistical support at this time favors the armor tanker and leaves the shield tankers hung out to dry forcing anyone who plays them to run with no logistical support.

My suggestion is to add in a new logistic equipment tool that will repair shields like an armor repair tool does to armor. this will help balance the game and take away the favor CCP has for armor based suits and vehicles.
i might even go as far as also requesting that passive armor repair for both suits and vehicles be set up like passive shield. where a set time must pass without taking damage past a threshold to begin its passive repair. and to also make armor repair modules for vehicles active like shield boosters currently are.

These are my suggestions to further balance this game i have come to love. If any has a better idea, a reason why this would not help, or are in support of this idea please feel free to comment.

Thanks for your time.

Would be nice but it can not be on par with the armor rep tool maybe a hybrid rep tool that reps both at a lower rate 30 shield 40 armor 35 CPU 8 PG

+1
I would like to se equipment for all races like the weapons.
Caldari reptool for shields
Minmatar reptool for shield60% and armor40%
Amarr reptool for shield40% and armor60%
Gallente reptool for armor

Caldari are slow moving with big buffers just like Amarr.

Give us a nano-hive like shield booster equipment. You put it on the ground and it boost your shield by a % value as long as you stand in it.

Would be nice but it can not be on par with the armor rep tool maybe a hybrid reptool that reps both at a lower rate 30 shield 40 armor 35 CPU 8 PG

As much as I love the idea of being able to shield rep my heavies, this idea risks diminishing the distinction between shields and armor. Balance is good; balancing at the cost of variety isn't. You don't want shields and armor to be too similar..

actually if we got a shield rep tool itd be twice as good as an armor rep since shields are first and only defense for shield tankers in addition to shield tankers having less hp than armor tankers. all shield reps previously in game were way more effective than armor reps.

The biggest issue with shield reps is the way they boost eHP for armor tanks aswell.

When you're being armor repaired, chances are, you are already or very soon to be out of shields and into cooldown. This means that the amount of eHP gained through armor reppers before you die is generally bound by your armor buffer+passive repair. This makes armor reps most effective on armor tanks and rightly so.

Conversely, a shield repaired suit gets full benefit of these repairs even if it's actually an armor tank. The repper keeps providing more eHP by adding small amounts of extra shields for the whole time until the all armor is depleted and the suit lost. Thus, hybrid/shield reppers provide equal or increased benefit to hybrid/armor tanks which is exactly backwards to what I assume is their intented effect.

Concerning hybrid reps. It also has to be considered that the two tank paradigms are designed to work differently and their numbers are set accordingly. If you make shields and armor more mechanically similar, you might end up having to make them numerically more similar.

When one paradigm doesn't work that well where it should, the first step should be to tweak some numbers around to better define the strengths and weaknesses of both tank types before changing the way both function on a pretty fundamental level. Remember that shields would gain a function ("can be repaired") they weren't necessarily intended to have* and armor would get, essentially, another type of repper they partially/fully benefit from.

An alternative to shield reps which avoids some of these issues would be a shield resistance boosting module. This gives shield dedicated logibros a way to support shield tanks but without benefiting armor tanks too much along with it as it doesn't circumvent the shields innate dependency on recharge and cooldown the way reps would do.

*On infantry, anyways. The Caldari LLAV had infantry targeting shield reps but both are gone right now and no one knows if they get to keep this particular ability on their return.

you cant just add a hybrid tool. there has to be one dedicated to shields. i am not opposed to a hybrid tool just saying that there must also be a counterpart to the armor tool. so you will ahve one just for shileds and one just for armor. i would also make shields rep hives too.

There is just 1 big problem:

shield transfer tools would kickstart the natural shield regen of the suit. And believe me you dont want a caldari sentinel that could perma regen 100HP/s and on top of that the shield transfer. We are talking here around 150HP/s or even more.

There is just 1 big problem:

shield transfer tools would kickstart the natural shield regen of the suit. And believe me you dont want a caldari sentinel that could perma regen 100HP/s and on top of that the shield transfer. We are talking here around 150HP/s or even more.

keep bumping..