Shields just need a few drawbacks since armor has 3: movement penalty, jump height penalty, and turn speed. Shields need to give you a larger signature and larger hitbox that reverts down to your suit frame size when depleted.

Shields just need a few drawbacks since armor has 3: movement penalty, jump height penalty, and turn speed. Shields need to give you a larger signature and larger hitbox that reverts down to your suit frame size when depleted.

If that's the case, armor shouldn't have a movement penalty until the other plates come out.

There is an EXTREMELY long thread about Shield vs Armor, included a CCP dev post saying that their way of fixing this is lowering the speed penalty of the modules, and they are adding new armor modules without a penalty but lower HP. Some of the modules you have suggested will be nullified by the new modules. For example the module to reduce the penalty, unless it was a 50%+ reduction it would be more effective to use one of the new plates unless it was in the high slot like you mentioned, but this would hurt armor tanks in EHP because shields tanks wont need it, decreasing base armor for increased speed sounds interesting but this doesn't help armor tanking per say because they are sacrificing armor twice with this module, armor they could use in the slot itself and base armor, also a mod like this would be best suited for high slots to avoid shield tankers abusing it to death. Also adding skills for these modules to help balance out armor would be bad, because it would mean that to be an effective armor tank you would need to spend twice the SP. I know your thread isn't exactly about fixing armor tanking, but before any upgrades are added to shield tanking, armor tanking needs to be made effective.