That would mean PURE shields would have use in pc, and people would stop using armor on shield suits.

Would it be possible to add regulator variants? Like one that reduces depleted delay more but gives no bonus to regular delay, and one that reduces regular delay more but doesn't effect depleted delay?

Edit: The problem is that adding a 5% bonus to an already far too weak module isn't going to be enough to make it worth running over an additional plate

For example: a Minmatar assault with 4 shield extenders has about a 10.2 second recharge delay (which is in itself ridiculous since it's the lowest eHP assault suit in the game). Throwing on a current prototype regulator will reduce that to 7.6 seconds to wait while bullets are raining all around you and missiles are falling from the sky. Waiting that long before your shields START to recover, not before they ARE recovered. With this new bonus, instead we'll be waiting 7.1 seconds for our shields to START coming back.

You just saved me 0.5 seconds on a 7+ second wait...... thanks. That might be enough to save me.... 3% of the time.

I don't know how well you know your Minmatar suits, but that means we have 168 (at max armor passive skill) to keep us alive until our shields begin to regen, and that's if you don't take any fall damage, get clipped by a vehicle, or get grazed by a stray bullet in the meantime. 1-6 bullets from just about any weapon is enough to kill that, and I don't know if you've noticed but our guns shoot a lot of bullets really fast.

So tell me why, with this minuscule wait time increase, would I not be more inclined to simply throw on a plate? At least then I'd have the health to run away once my shields went down. With this low eHP, I'd be better off having at least one plate to give me the health to run when necessary as opposed to dying while hiding and hoping my shields come back before the guy that shot my shields off decides to come play peek-a-boo around whatever cover I'm using.

No, I just described why Minmatar SHOULD be hit-and-run specialists.

The Minmatar scout is a great hit-and-run suit because of it's native scans and damps combined with it's spectacular speed and balanced slot loadout.

The Minmatar assault is not fast enough to be able to get the run part of "hit-and-run" down since every scout that's not completely loaded down with plates and any assault with a single basic kincat can keep up with. There is not enough good cover in this game to bounce from cover to cover avoiding gunfire. It has no bonus to scans or damps so even if you do run you are 75% of the time just picked off by a scout who saw what you were doing and got ahead of you. With 3 complex precision enhancers this suit cannot scan a scout with a single damp on (3 complex puts my scan at 26.35db, scout with 1 proto damp = 23.63), so that increases the % of people I can scan over no precision enhancers by about 3% since my maxed passives already pick up anyone not a scout or damped, so that's useless. I can't Damp tank to avoid scanners or scout passives since I only have 2 lows, one always held by a regulator. And since my ability to recover from damage is worse than anyone's, my suit fails at recovering in a pinch.

So, basically all the things that could be used to put together a great hit-and-run class the Minmatar either fails at miserably or attempts but falls short of.

No, sir, YOU are the one who has no clue what he is speaking of.

Would these regulators be giving a percentage of base shields or total shields? Because if it's total, a Caldari assault fully shield tanked right now would go from 552.3 to 634.8 shields (not too terribly large of a jump if they only used a single module, potential for issues if stacked), but a Caldari heavy would go from 946.7 to 1088.7 and tbh with resistances boosting eHP the way they are already this could be something of an issue.