That's the thing. I can only get my Sica to 4k shield because of the PG cap and the fact that I don't have my skills maxed in (whatever gives more max PG to vehicles). I only have a limited amount of SP too so its hard to decide between maxing those skills, investing SP into skills to get a better tank, investing SP into skills for shield resisters, or investing SP into getting a better blaster. SP is tight right now, only got about 225k and there are so many angles and routes to decide from.

Ha. Well I never played eve and I've only been playing dust for about 2 weeks. XD

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FOR THE SOMA
Heavy ig polerized armour repair
180mm steal plates
1 power diognostic system
1 power expansion unit
1 light clarity shield repair
And one periferal damage contoll system
This is with a 80gj blaster turret also applies when fitting the rail turret .

FOR THE SICA
2 power diognostic systems
1 heavy shield extender
1 supplamental shield extender
And 1 light clarity ward shield booster
This applyscto fitting rail turrets when fitting the blaster replace one of the power diognostic units for a power expansion unit and the heavy shield for the heavy suplamental shield booster and swap the light clarity ward shield booster for the heavy clarity ward shield booster ...

What about shield boosters though? Like what do you do if you get forge cannoned twice and your shields are almost gone?

Alright thanks for the info guys . So based on what you said, i should spend all my SP on getting a better tank

yay more advice \o/ keep it coming ;) yep i found the approach for me is to get the best dang modules i can get to stick on my sica, that way i can beat all the other militia tankers who put minimal stuff on to thier tanks, whilehave a fair shot at the standard tanks.

While a blaster for my main weapon would be the way I'd go, are railguns for my gunners viable options for long range AV?

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Since the battlefield is far from static, how do you tank drivers handle different situations? I'm sure there wouldn't be much point in keeping different fittings for different situations since you can't change your loadout once you call your tank (unless it gets popped, anyway).

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Since the battlefield is far from static, how do you tank drivers handle different situations? I'm sure there wouldn't be much point in keeping different fittings for different situations since you can't change your loadout once you call your tank (unless it gets popped, anyway). While a blaster for my main weapon would be the way I'd go, are railguns for my gunners viable options for long range AV?

I believe armor is better for anti-infantry because it is PG heavy. It is also able to repair its armor much faster than a shield tank can rep its shield. Armor tanks also have better damage reduction mods and great low slots, which allow you to have more EHP than a shield tank.

PG is good for an AI tank because blaster is much better than a railgun for mowing down enemy infantry. Blaster uses more PG and less CPU. Railguns use more CPU and have less PG. If you want to AI on a shield tank, you'll have some serious PG problems if you want to keep your tank alive. Again, the slow shield recharge will not allow you to tank enemy AV. You'll have to use the shield booster twice times to recharge your shields from even 50% to full.

edit: I wouldn't start over if you put points into shield. Eventually (if you're going all tank) you'll probably want to have the option of going shield tank too. You can't have spent too many points on shield tanks alone because armor tanks use shields too. I'm 100% shield tank atm, but once I finish my shield tank I'm getting my armor tanking skills up.

I think I'm the loudest proponent of specialization on these forums lol. I see tanking as a specialization in itself. Turrets are one of the most important things to a tank, and fortunately blaster and railguns are both hybrid and require the same skills to level up. The amount of points you spend on shields or armor can easily be done in a few weeks at most. If you started with the arbiter class it's much easier to go from shield tank to armor than it is to go from armor to shield. Armor skills don't have the expensive prerequisites that the shields do. It's just one more reason why the arbiter class is pretty much the best class for almost every role.

Thanks man. Well since I just started playing this game like 2 or 3 weeks ago and I've never played eve before so just went with the Amarr bloodline and enforcer class. So different classes do influence more than I thought. I'll have to look into that. Do you think its worth making a whole new character just to get the advantages of the arbitor class? I meen, you can't switch classes, can you?

Sorry for so many questions, I'm such a noob

There is no point choosing a new class or bloodline. It has no effect other then starting skills and since you're 2-3 weeks in, you'll just be farther behind. There is a saying in EVE that "no skill goes wasted" to mean as things change with patches what is best will change. One day it's shields, next day it's armour.

You are better off just skilling into the stuff you need now rather then restarting since you'll have skills now that can still be useful rather then have to get them again. You also have to remember there is no limit on the SP your character can have. So eventually you could get everything. (But new content usually prevents that as there is always something new to skill into :D)

Haha ok. Thanks man for the advice I'll look into armor tanks and see if I can throw a few SP that way and experiment. I guess it just comes down to personnel preference at this point. That being said, almost every game,e comes down to personnel preference at some point and time. The only real way to find out what's "best" is to experiment. Thanks everyone for your help

Absolutely. That's the attitude to have :D

Send me a mail in game. We should have a few games together :)

But really it doesn't take much SP to get into armour tanking. Field mechanics to 5, repair systems and armour upgrades to 3, and adaptation to 1 for starters gets you everything you need to build a good, strong armour tank. Even just getting lvl 4 mechanics and 1 in each is a good start to expand from.