Yeah, I'd have to agree with you on this one.  Still, the difference is pretty small (22.5% and 25%) so I never really even noticed it, but it makes sense.

The armor hit points can stay the same.  It would be the difference of using much stronger and lighter materials.  You get less weight but can still get greater structural integrity.

It's working as intended. Expensive higher lvl items have bigger bonus, along with lesser penalty in cases that apply, in most mmos. Eve, which this game borrowed heavily from, use the same system, so it's no surprise. It's widely used and tested system that avoids unnecessary balancing issues, since you don't end up with higher items being inferior to lower ones.

Higher bonuses with higher requirements and less penalties.
If you change the LWF your going to have to change the stabilisers and a lot of other things as well.

They already told us what they'll do. It's point 2: Increase robots base speed, and decrease mass reduction of lwf.

Even if they increase base speed of bots, and nerf LWF, people will still use LWF. As long as there is a module to increase speed, people will use it.

Only option is to change LWF into a totally different type of module, you can't just remove it from the game, but you could change it to do some other effect than speed increase.

I think in this case, it's more that because everyone has to use LWF, it means that demob becomes the defacto counter fit. If there was only a slight advantage to the LWF, in some non-roam situations, it would be possible to forgo the LWF and make L-demob have less impact on the outcome.

Factually incorrect. In Eve, t2 gear has much higher fitting requirements in return for better performance than t1. T1 meta 1-4 mods are mostly easier to fit rather than better quality. Meta mods are not preferred for pvp except when attempting to make secondary gear work in a fit (so a m4 medium neut is fine, but m4 guns are absolutely NOT a replacement for t2 guns).

This game generally sees bonuses increasing and penalties decreasing when moving up the tech levels. I don't like that; it means that t4 mods strongly dominate when fitting choices are made, removing the strategy aspect (which mods am I willing to downgrade so that I can fit the important ***?).

What you said:

Trenchant part of my reply:

You'll note that my focus in the not bolded part of the reply is on increasing the number of interesting decision points when fitting rather than the newbie experience. Assuming I have all the gear handed to me free I have no reason, fitting wise, to use anything other than t4.

In eve, even with AWU4 (damn near no one gets 5) and max (other) fitting skills, when fitting a cane out for combat I need to fit a couple of meta mods, or downgrade the size class of a couple of the utility items to keep them t2. This was an interesting decision. Here, bigger tier better gear, never ever downgrade.

Now, if you're seriously going to accuse me of whining because I can't get *** RAT NAOW, I'ma have to ask you kindly to stuff it. Been playing Eve for years, and I consistently argued for improving the newbie experience and giving them a better shot at winning because, unlike you, I neither need nor want leet gear to win. I want a just out the gate newbie to be competitive because I understand that that's the best way to get people playing and fighting. It also means fewer boring *** fights where I stomp somebody, and more awesome fights where I'm flying by the seat of my pants and just barely keeping ahead or, better yet, just barely losing.

I'm not gonna stop *** about the delta between newbie gear and vet gear just because I end up with a pile of it myself. Which I will. Our indy guys are that good. I'll stop when I see that newbies are able to get to vet quality gear in a week or so, and that after that they're adding OPTIONS rather than bonuses. Options. Those are the fun thing. +1 to laser range, lame. A new way to engage? Awesome.

Being a poor noob myself I have no idea if what Aeon is saying is true, but if it is, that is an issue. The Drawback of T3/T4 is higher fitting requirements, part of the purpose of those higher fitting requirements is to restrict full T4 fits, forcing you to make a decision on what to downgrade, if that doesn't happen then T4 is just straight out better, its 'Drawback' is meaningless. Unfortunately, Sabre is probably right, if you nerfed bots CPU / Reactor, noobs would have a problem fitting anything, due to the high number of secondary fitting skills (Far too many imo, but thats another thread), you could however further increase the fitting reqs for T4 gear to obtain the same result.

In regards to the way LWF scales through the tech levels, I think it fits with everything else, higher fitting / better performance. In the Armor Rep example the OP used, the higher AP usage would be viewed as part of the 'Fitting Drawback' which is CPU, Reactor and Accumulator Usage. If a module is passive like a LWF it just gets a CPU and Reactor Drawback, all other stats would be improved.

@Sabre, I don't see why everyone would crosstrain to blue if LWFs were nerfed, everyone would be in exactly the same position as they are now, just slightly slower. For PvP the issue is not absolute speed, but your speed relative to the speed of the people you are fighting with and against. Your Chameleon would still be faster than anything else, it would be slower, but so would the mech you were chasing down to tackle. I would be interested to see how the game would change if the LWF was nerfed to a level where it became a real choice of whether to fit one or not. Maybe it wouldn't work, and further game play changes would have to be made, but I think everyone would agree that fitting for speed shouldn't be the only way to PvP

Speed is almost the single most important factor in perpetuum. Just remove LWF as a speed increasing module altogether - Make it have some other effect.

Make speed a constant and everyone will be happy.

You'd only need around lvl5s in fitting skills for a "full" t4 fit on combat mechs. But then that "full" fit has small rep and 2 weapon slots left empty (2x missile for gun mech, 2x gun for missile mech). Fittings get tighter as you go up to t2 mech/heavy mech. Fittings for industrials are tight at any levels.

Requirements may be low compared to other mods, like medium guns, etc, but they're meant to be used on all sized bots, not just mechs and up. Increasing cpu/reactor would be a gimp to small bots.