# TFW T2 is operationally superior to all but one faction/officer variant

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**Created:** [October 30, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tfw-t2-is-operationally-superior-to-all-but-one-faction-officer-variant/276900 "2020-10-30T02:10:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Archer\_en\_Tilavine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/archer_en_tilavine/32/461718_2.png) [@Archer\_en\_Tilavine](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Archer_en_Tilavine)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tfw-t2-is-operationally-superior-to-all-but-one-faction-officer-variant/276900/1 "2020-10-30T02:10:19Z")

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I made a peculiar observation earlier today 🔍. This isn’t an entertaining or life-changing post, so feel free to move on with your day.

As most of you are aware, some faction/deadspace/officer modules are broken up into “series” that emphasize different bonuses; for example, Giisti/Domination/Republic shield boosters emphasize lower CPU and cap efficiency while Pithi/Caldari/Dread/Guristas shield boosters emphasize higher repair amount. Higher tiered non-covert cloaks are also broken down into two series: one that favors lower sensor recalibration time, and one that has a reduced scan resolution and speed penalty. I was surprised to find, however, that this division only occurs between T2/storyline vs faction/officer variants. In other words, faction/officer modules don’t have this division within themselves. Let me show you:

| Lower Sensor Recalibration Time | Lower Scan Resolution/Speed Penalty |
| --- | --- |
| T2 (⭐20s/ -40% / -75%), cheaply manufactured | Caldari/Gurista (25s / -35% / -72.5%), LP store + BP drop??? |
| ‘Guise’ (19s / -35% / -75%), one-time COSMOS??? | Kaikka (23.8s / -31.75% / -71.12%) - Worst Officer |
| Syndicate (18s / -30% / -90%), 90 day-repeat epic arc | … |
| | … |
| | … |
| | Estamel’s (⭐20s / -22% / -67%) - Best Officer |

Parentheses indicate sensor recalibration, scan resolution penalty, and speed penalty. CONCORD cloak has identical stats to one of the officer cloaks.

In the above table, it is immediately apparent that _**the cheapest and most readily available non-covert cloak has a lower sensor recalibration time than each and every single faction and officer cloak (with the exception of the best, which matches)**_. This means that if your objective is to minimize recalibration time and the speed/scan resolution penalty isn’t as much of a concern (eg. Carriers + Networked Sensor Array), you might find yourself better off with T2 over faction/officer. If I had to guess, I’d say CCP intentionally bottlenecked the availability of higher-tiered lower-recalibration non-covert cloaks so as to not make _ **certain ships** _ overpowered. Still, I find this interesting.

# T2 ≥ Faction/Officer???

🧐🤔🤪

P.S. if you found this post to be a waste of your time, here is a picture of some kittens to make up for it

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**Author:** ![Xeux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xeux/32/428022_2.png) [@Xeux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xeux)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tfw-t2-is-operationally-superior-to-all-but-one-faction-officer-variant/276900/2 "2020-10-30T02:15:00Z")

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T2 is all I can ever afford. Who cares about all those dumb gold plated modules anyway?

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**Author:** ![Scoots\_Choco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/scoots_choco/32/262262_2.png) [@Scoots\_Choco](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Scoots_Choco)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tfw-t2-is-operationally-superior-to-all-but-one-faction-officer-variant/276900/3 "2020-10-30T02:25:43Z")

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just means it’s another thing that CCP will have to do a balance pass on with their slow teiricide

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**Author:** ![Archer\_en\_Tilavine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/archer_en_tilavine/32/461718_2.png) [@Archer\_en\_Tilavine](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Archer_en_Tilavine)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tfw-t2-is-operationally-superior-to-all-but-one-faction-officer-variant/276900/4 "2020-10-30T02:28:27Z")

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I don’t think this was an oversight, I actually think this was a conscientious design decision on their part. But yeah, it wouldn’t be hard to split down the middle if they wanted to, move some entries over to the left side.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tfw-t2-is-operationally-superior-to-all-but-one-faction-officer-variant/276900/5 "2021-01-28T02:28:43Z")

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