5.3.2

[Egon Bigmemes]

It's quite likely some sort of armor-with-downsides system will return to capital ships in the future, but we'll need to come up with tradeoffs that are interesting, fun and fair.

i think you sorely underestimate how much people do not like playing gimmicklancer, especially with caps. this is the wrong game and too clunky of a game to have a dozen hotkeys as the minimum requirement to become barely relevant on the grid. yeah i have to engage with the gimmick (i just turn my shield off then never turn it back on) but having to use the gimmick isnt enjoying it. so whatever tradeoff you come up with will undoubtedly compound with the painful (read, tooth-pulling) gameplay of capital ships

you can do whatever you want, as theres no one capable of/willing to tell you no, but caps are a lost cause for all but a few.
as an anecdote, the first and only time i've had fun flying anything larger than a gunboat since the rework was fist fighting Tenshi and the Akhetaten in conn for an hour or two a month ago and learning how to abuse its component setup. and thats ONLY because i had the hull durability to make some mistakes. anything less is generally instant death at one (1) fuck-up.