lol a penalty for shields?

You're a brave man for suggesting this to CCP.

lol a penalty for shields?

You're a brave man for suggesting this to CCP.

lol a penalty for shields?

You're a brave man for suggesting this to CCP.

Awesome idea. Let's make scouts even more useless

I feel its a fair counter balance to Armor penalties.

Awesome idea. Let's make scouts even more useless

Going by EVE drawback, shield do increase your sig radius so that wouldn't seem very unlikely. Just as plates in EVE adds to your mass.

Awesome idea. Let's make scouts even more useless

Awesome idea. Let's make scouts even more useless

The sig penalty wouldn't be a fair thing if you think about it.
dB is a useless stat.
What shields should do is increase your hit box.
Armor makes you slower and easier to hit that way, shields don't make you slower but sitll make you easier to hit.

And add resistance modules that don't have such penalties, so we could go DFT warrioring. (It is now a verb cuz I say so)

Shields are supposed to give you a larger signature radius, which means you are easier to detect and hit. I imagine because the "field" itself is being "extended", your hitbox should also increase as long as you are within shield HP.

Shields are supposed to give you a larger signature radius, which means you are easier to detect and hit. I imagine because the "field" itself is being "extended", your hitbox should also increase as long as you are within shield HP.

Complex shield extenders should increase your DB detection rate by 10% or more and increase the range you can be detected at. As you are running a more energy emitting suit you should be far easier to pick up from enemy suit scanners and from further away.

Stealth in a mostly action-oriented shooter is about two aspects that BOTH need to be present for it to be meaningful.

1. Remaining undetected.
2. moving fast when you need to move.

If you have to choose between those two things, you're breaking the viability of stealth in the game. The drawback of shields is quite simply that they give you less HP than armour. If Shield Extenders get a Profile penalty, they should also give the same HP as Plates.

The problem here ISN'T shields being OP, it's armour needing a slight buff. A little extra HP (mostly for higher-tier) or an overhaul to armour modules so higher-tier armour isn't giving larger drawbacks.

Complex shield extenders should increase your DB detection rate by 10% or more and increase the range you can be detected at. As you are running a more energy emitting suit you should be far easier to pick up from enemy suit scanners and from further away.

Implementing the above suggestion wouldn't break stealth in this game - it would simply mean people have to think differently about how they do it. Stealth oriented players would basically have to give up any tanking capabilities but they could still 'remain undetected' and be 'fast when you need to move'.

That said, I agree that armour needs tweaking but rather than more HP, less penalty - 10% is far far too much.

Edit - oh, also, yeah, in order for the OP suggestion to actually have any impact at all, the entire passive scanning and LOS identification system needs to be overhauled so profile and precision actually mean something.