Resons to change the shield mechanic:

1. You need to macro to fully benefit from shields in offensive setup. While key definition (in Game) might be enough, it encourages Player to violate EULA to get 100% benefit. And if you see player doing regular damage through his own shield without any time shield beeing open you can tell your self what other people give on EULA.

2. Shielded Trojar is atm able to blast 60%-90% of Mechs, a Mech setup to counter this is quite imbalanced for other purpose. A decent fitet Trojar requires no player skills to ubar "normal" fitted Mechs regardless of skill of mech player in 1vs1. For HM I assume, that it is not that inbalancing to equip counter measures but expect that shielded Trojar with good player gets even some HM down in 1vs1.

If you use shield you are invulnerable in 1on1 until you meet someone with neuter (which is no common PvP fit).
And even simple neut equipment is not enough to crack up a good shielded Trojar.

Do you think that it should be ok to be invulnerable against 95% of PVP setup by sacrifying less than 40% of dps but still having enough dps to kill most bots in reasonable time?

In most setups in PO it is worth to sacrify some dps and equip something else instead (range/demob/ECM/ECCM/...). Your major "loss" of dps is situational when having shields most time up. In case you need more dps, but can afford to risk a hit you just let shields down and have normal dps.

I like the way it is. Standing is at the moment one of the things you really have to do for yourself (or find someone grinding in squad for you and have the reduced benefit)

The major problem in doing solo pvp is that you have to to plan that you get instant way home because encountering too many enemies before starting doing solo pvp.
My opinion is that if you meet 5+ enemies beeing alone, you survive only if they are not prepared to fight (e.g, carry no weapon or have no lwf equipped and you outrun them easily) or they are quite bad. Extreme shield tank is last possibility but you usually don't start solo PvP in shield fit, you just manage to survive but kill no other.

Solo PvP is doable. If sucessfull it is in  most cases  vs Indu or vs unprepared but there are nice examples of good fights and I also remember seeing fights with 1 vs 2 in similar bots which are won by tactic and skill.

I think research should be changed in a way that you can achieve single goals faster without beeing forced to research everything, but there still need to be something to research after a year playtime (for researcher enforced by large corp it will be always quite faster, but it should no be usual for soloplayer to have 100% research in first year). Nevertheless it should not be possible to focus on one item only and have this on T4 after ~1 week research.

I would propose, that future research is even a bit slower than today, but you should be allowed to focus on item group (eg. weapon, electronic equipment, nexus) Kernel-color should direct what to research in a manner more clear to researcher by eg. giving Nexus or electronic equipment also color. This would lead to fact, that a specialist researcher is earlier in a position to deliver something to market (selling T2 small autocannon is not really effective) and to the way that a corp could decide wheter to have on main prototyper or several specialised

THe usage of kernels for prototyping is on one hand a good way to ensure, that there are still kernel needed after prototyper finished research, but I think it is on other hand to expensive for prototyper who did not finish research to handle double the kernel demand and would prefer to have no need for kernels in Prototypes.

Great idea, but you would need to constant demob all enemies fireing on this Heavy, as it would be nearly standing when running full speed .

You just could avoid that a Heavy is killed by a bunch of shortrange small bots without good chance to take at least one of them with you

I appreciate that efforts were taken to allow a small base a good gameplay.

Nevertheless I would like it more to play instead of reading the forums .

If it is easy possible, you shout extend the error message that you can't log in with pointer to this thread, as I think it would have helped me saving some time, if I would have found the hint whats going on a bit earlier.

Nevertheless still thumbs up for this great game. The sum of all annoying bugs in more than 6 Month is way below the list I'm used from other games.
It is quite frustrating sometimes, eg when loosing bots due to server issues and GM declare they could not reimburse, but I have seen worse things happening in other MMO.

How would you jugde collateral damage done to you against collateral done to all you fight?
Some corps need to work hard, to get at least a few T4 fittings while the last months it seemed that m2s didn't care a sh** about loosing a bunch of T4 fitted HM.

Alone the fact that your corpmates had good equip might have lead to enormous collateral damage by your enemies.