They did it for vehicles... they might do this for dropsuits too, you never know.

This will also help out on the massive annoyance heavies deal with being slow as hell, plus for every plate you add you get that much slower. CCP could still give us equipment, that'd be cool..

I like it, but the lack of any changes to armor since the very beginning of Dust makes me far from hopeful.

The only problem with this is that shield tankers are still going to benefit from plates more than armor tankers. We need armor tanking suits to have armor related bonuses to give them an edge or all we'll be doing is adding more buffer to shield tankers.

Only concern is CPU/PG costs. Plates cannot go over 9 PG or they become extremely difficult to fit.

But get this: We can't fit more than 1 without it going invalid.

I like where your mind is at but this is a tad too much of a buff.

I know shields have the advantage against armor but I think tweaks against shields and slots plus slight buffs to armor and reppers is better. Take it slow without 1 giant buff to armor swinging the pendulum just to the other side.

Some good ideas, you never know this may get added to CMDR Wang's list of things we looked at this week and get a SOONGäó next to it.

I dislike the Heavy plate idea.

15% speed reduction + 3x PG + 1.5x CPU?

No.

This is how it's done for vehicles, so makes sense. The armor tanking races (Gallente and Amarr) need to have bonuses that reduce the fitting cost of medium and heavy armor plates so we can actually fit them, making our suits the ideal for armor tanking. Also it would then justify the movement penalty since we'd have substantially more HP than shield tankers with no penalties, rather than only slightly more HP.

That is also a good idea, but having the bonuses be so small (2% per level or 1%:1% per level) doesn't really put enough emphasis on the suits' specialty.

Let's take the base PG value of the Heavy ak.0 without any skills factored in: 54 PG. A 10% increase would bring the value up to 59 PG. Complex armor plates as they are now take up 12 PG. If you are suggesting that a single Complex Heavy Plate require 3 times the amount of PG as the standard Complex Plates, then you are suggesting to cut over half of a Heavy's total PG with just 1 plate.

I do not see any positives in that; especially with an added speed penalty. Speed is a Heavy's greatest weakness. Any more reductions would negatively affect a Heavy player's performance despite having slightly more armor.

I don't think I've been beaten by an armor tank once-like ever. Killdari Logi forever!

This is not a such a bad idea. Obviously needs a bit of balancing though. +1

Great ideas but it's just adding more complex stuff for the servers to deal with. I retain the idea that reppers as well as the new plates are moved to high slots.

I'm the worst shot in the world and I fear nobody who isn't a Caldari suit. I'll just say that much.

I think infantry should come up with a new term that doesn't include tanking. So we can avoid confusion.

The strength of Armor setups in EVE lies in their qualities for taking reduced damage (both through resistances and low signature size) and high HP, which lend themselves very well to spider tanking. Armor is generally more resilient than shields under fire and thus excel at brawling, while shields is vastly superior in skirmish scenarios.

Additionally, dual tanking is discouraged by sheer virtue of fitting requirements; Shield extenders eat a lot of CPU, something Armor ships have little of, while Armor plates take up a lot of PG, which Shield ships only have in scarce supply. Which means you can't fit many, if any, weapons.

So the solution isn't so much giving suits bonuses to module fitting reduction, as it is matching suit fitting to module requirements.

An example; the numbers are just there to give a rough idea:
Say an Armor suit has 50 PG and 150 CPU, a Shield suit has 30 PG and 250 CPU, an Armor plate takes 20 PG and 30 CPU, and a Shield extender takes 10 PG and 50 CPU.
The Armor suit has greater ease fitting the Armor plate, as it takes 1/3 of its PG and 1/5th of its CPU. It has trouble fitting the Shield extender, as while it only takes 1/5th its PG, it takes 1/3rd of its CPU.
The Shield suit easily fits the shield extender, as it only takes 1/3rd of its PG and 1/5th of its CPU. It has trouble fitting the Shield extender, as while it takes less than 1/8th its CPU, it takes 2/3rds of its PG.

In either case, you can still dual tank, but it comes with a massive cost in firepower, and the need for fitting modules (a good, non novelty/gimmick fit, shouldn't need to waste slots on fitting modules).

This alleviates the issue surrounding Armor modules being more useful for Shield tankers.

e: Yes, there are cases where fitting Armor to a Shield suit or vice versa is a viable option, but even then you don't dual tank.