# Why is the Repair Systems skill a two-edged sword?

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**Created:** [August 14, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-is-the-repair-systems-skill-a-two-edged-sword/415892 "2023-08-14T07:12:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Io\_Koval](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/io_koval/32/282426_2.png) [@Io\_Koval](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Io_Koval)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-is-the-repair-systems-skill-a-two-edged-sword/415892/79 "2023-08-19T16:21:32Z")

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- _Murasame Masamune: “Holding everything constant, if I run reppers forever and increase this one skill, I run out of capacitor quicker and my fits become less cap stable”_
- Everyone: “Yes, so don’t do that, theres half a dozen ways to not run out of cap”
- _M.M: “It’s a downside!”_
- Everyone: “No, it isn’t”
- _M.M: “It objectively lets you consume more capacitor in the same amount of time!”_
- Everyone: “Yes”
- _M.M: “That is literally a downside/punishment/negative!”_
- Everyone: “No”
- _M.M: “It objectively is a downside!”_ (repeat as necessary)
- Everyone: “No, as you can always decide to run the repper intermittently to match the slower speed before”
- _M.M: “I wish I had some way to raise the skill but choose to run the repper with longer duration”_
- Everyone: 🤨 “That’s precisely what we just said…”
- _M.M: “You’re ignoring **me** : it literally consumes more capacitor and therefore it is literally a downside”_
- Everyone: “It _can_ consume more capacitor in the same amount of time but that alone is not a downside. It’s only a downside for fits and piloting styles where you run modules turned on forever.”
- _M.M: “You keep ignoring it consumes more capacitor in the same amount of time! You all have an ego!”_

🙄

The dude is staring at one tree and the rest of us are trying to show him the forest.

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