Isn't a module that soaks up damage and then stops working once its soaked up a certain amount of HP.....just be a Shield Extender or Armor Plate? You're more or less describing a hardener as an HP module that has finite amount of damage it absorbs before damage starts to hurt the rest of the vehicle.

And that solves what exactly? Yea, nothing. It turns hardeners into a powerup, not a actual tool to work off of.

Pretty much. You can remain pretty much perma hardened with 2 complex hardeners, and I think that's fine. However with passive reps, as long as the effective rep rate is high enough, you don't need buffer because the rep rate makes up for a lack of buffer through sheer damage mitigation.

If reps however are on a timer, you're going to need more buffer because you will have downtime where you're repping very little (natural armor reps only) so having that plate will be neccesary. You could theoretically fit 2 active reps but they don't last long enough to rep constantly, so you would still be left with downtime and even less buffer.

Active reps force a tradeoff and mixture of raw HP, damage resistance, and repping capabilities. Passive reps and resistances pretty much kick ass currently because together their damage mitigation is extremely high with no downtime.

That is a problem with the redline, not the reps, or the HAV.

We've had active reps for a long time before moving to passives and it was never an issue. You relied on hardeners and your plates/extenders to tide you between cycles of repair, and it worked just fine.

And therefore let's not fix actual things, let's just break it even more?

The first statement is false, as I've never said that. I've said that they shoudln't be killing HAV's like a HAV can kill a HAV, yes, but those two things are nowhere near the same thing.