Only suggestion would be to swap profile dampening and cardiac reg.

Force a choice between speed/sta and armor and profile dampening and shields. Especially if shields are likely to receive a signature penalty.

i cant say that i would agree on this.

by adding a med slot you would have to take away from the low and high slots. therefore taking away the ability to do a high hp shield/armor tank effectively due to lack of low and high slots but would add to more modifying of special skills. which could also take away the effectiveness of very carefully choosing your suits.

This is why I suggested leaving the highs and lows the same for all suits, and adding more PG/CPU to equip the Medium module slots. This would open up a vast amount more possibilities for shield tankers and armor tankers.

I think It would add to the effectiveness of carefully choosing your suits.

For instance a heavy could choose to tank in stamina (highs) damage (med) and armor (lows) while a shotty scout could tank shield (highs) hacking/stealth (med) and speed (lows) a frontline assaulter could tank in shield (high) damage (med) armor (low)
a sniper could tank in shield (high) scan precision/scan range (med) and low profile sig (low) a logistics could run with shield rechargers/regulators (highs) PG/CPU enhancers for more equipment (med) and armor repairers (low)

That is only a few simple examples. I just feel that loadouts would be vastly more complex and diverse this way. It would also add to the overall ability for each role to succeed at their job.

I like it but it feels like it's far too much to change, ya know? I think the easiest way is to just move some of the existing mods into the high slots:

Cardiac Regulator
Codebreaker
Armor Repairer
Reactive Plates

These ones seem like the most computer intensity of them. Seriously, Armor Reps are supposed to be little nanobugs that constantly crawl all over my armor to make repairs right? How is that not complex enough for a high slot?

Anyway, the move would simultaneously even out the high/low disparity while also making armor tanking more attractive. You could fill you lows with plates while filling your highs with damage mitigation.

in this case. the fittings would be based around free med slots that everyone has free. there would be no trade off as they are not sacrificing any armor to run faster. or sacrificing dmg for extra speed... armor suits are fine... they are not susceptible to flux grenades, you can put a +10% dmg on without compromising your main hp buffer.

for shields to get the same effect they will have to sacrifice hp and speed. when armor only sacrifices hp.

no offense, but i think if you get more creative with some fittings. you may find the low slots much more useful with different mods than armor mods.

In EvE there are a few shield modules that go into low slots, that's probably why the regulator is in a low slot, which is good because we don't have enough high slots as it is. Atm the armour tanker has the advantage of tank and gank and the shield tanker needs to choose or compromise.

I don't think anyone wants to see suits that can shield tank, armour tank AND stack damage all in one.

But in EVE the movement penalty for plates makes sense because it's mass related. In Dust it takes away mobility from 3 categories at the same time.

EDIT: Though actually, it doesn't directly give 'tactical advantages' to armour tankers. They wouldn't have an advantage in any particular department still.

That is correct, it would only serve to level the playing field. Currently these are advantages shield tankers can have over armor tankers.

I see.
One of the things I'd really like to see from the two different tank type is a clear role definition - for there to be situations where one type excels and beats the other one, and others where the other tank does better.

I'm glad to hear that you're following the armour vs shield debate. I will be posting a long thread on this shortly - May I link your thread in it?