Or, just make armor hardener like shield, has a delay, make's sense on an FPS platform. Fact is, a tank can double harden and take very little damage, giving AV very few, if none at all, war point's, so if there's a delay, it should be for both armor and shield.

Just my 2 isk.

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to simplify this:
enemy gunnlogi is in the field
run up to it with a plc. fire PLC round into its rear. accurie +10% for hitting shields and an additional 20% for attacking the rear of a vehicle. PLC round is capable of dropping shields almost entirely. begin piffing av grenades towards the gunnlogi
gunnlogi attempts to activte both hardeners and shield boost but dosnt get anything from its booster due to the av grenades dealing damage over its recharge threshold. shield hardners are now pointless as there is no shields left. 3rd grenade lands and destroys the gunnlogi.

this is what happens in roughly 3-4 seconds for a gunnlogi. it simply does not get any chance to defend itself due to it releying on shields which also happens to be its 1st line of defence, not to mention that shield boosters can be unreable at times.

as for putting shield rechargers in the lows they simply take up too much fitting capacity even though they are also stacking penilized. running 2 of those complex shield rechargers for that -35 in shield recharge deleys would be nice. but their simply to costly to run when you also need to be running both hardeners and extenders to get any form of hp.

This request makes sense.
Not that tanks in general have the need to be more powerul/survivable, but this request addresses the moderate imbalance between shield and armor tanks.

Either removal/reduction of shield hardener activation delay,
or as an option increase armor hardener activation delay as longer.