@cross yeah that would be good.

@KOBLAKA naw, dmg/shields high, armor/cardio low, the rest optional high or low

No.

In the title when you load the game it says EVE: Dust 514. Therefore same world, logic, technology, biases, doctrine, bonuses to races, etc.

In EVE, there are a few "essentials" that take mid slots, that hurt shield tanking ability. Points (warp distruptors and warp scramblers) that keep your target from warping away, and prop mods, that increase your speed. That's pretty much a mandatory 2 slots taken away from shield tanking ships.

Unfortunately, there's no equivalent to "warping" in DUST, but stamina/kinetic catalysts are roughly analogous to prop mods (i.e., they let your run farther and faster, respetively). Perhaps those could be turned into non-low slot items?

Historically (because as it's been pointed out, it's EVE: DUST 514), there hasn't been any module that goes into a medium slot (aka "high" in DUST) that helps out armor, but there are low slot items that help shields (Shield Flux Coil, Shield Power Array).

Armor's benefits have always been more buffer and higher base resists (no 0% resist hole, unlike shields). However, DUST unfortunately doesn't use the resist model, but "bonus damage" model, making armor's only selling point higher base buffer. But with Shield's vastly higher recharge rate in DUST as compared to EVE, it doesn't amount to much. That's a topic for anotehr thread, however.

To clarify, however, I would like to see a high slot armor module, maybe make it a resist module, even if just a 10% at proto, to make it work with armor's only upside. I am not of the opinion of changing the Shield Regulator model to a low slot item, though.

Perhaps damage mods now being high slot items is the otehr upside to armor tanking, though. Now armor tankers get to tank and gank! \o/