your comments below:

All numbers on sleeper damage are guesstimates and pretty far from the true ones, which give really silly and absurd results.

Sleeper damage is harsh especially when coming from the advanced battleships, but a focus fire of 3 BS’es on a 80% resisted armor tanker can be withstood with the help of 4 large RR’s.

If my calculations are correct and It’s not the spiced quafe talking, those 4 RR’s are able to rep up a 340 dps damage output. So if that 340dps is what bleeds through the 80% resists, 3 sleeper advanced Battleships have a total damage output of 1700 dps (566dps per BS) on a paper tank. The numbers of course are empirical approximations and they should by no means be taken into account as accurate ones when fitting your ship.

With the above damage model, my 60k EHP domi will pop in about 35 seconds with no RR support.. sounds about right =)

Similarly the 90% 30K EHP ship (namely the utility proteus) if standing still, will be accepting 170dps from those three BS’s, requiring only two large RR’s to compensate. Of course the reaction time falls down to 17 seconds before the proteus goes pop, but it’s plenty of time for at least two teammates to react.

However, one of us is misunderstanding dps repaired. Firstly, I understand dps to be damage per second, or volley/rof.

Dps eqilibrium requires the same calculation repaired/rof. So if a lrar2 repairs 384 armor every 4.5 seconds, expresable as 85 armor rep-second, or dps tanking potential.

So to update your numbers, 1000 dps would require 11.75 lrar2′s to hold the tank. That ungodly 2500 dps would need a staggering 29.4 lrar2′s.

That being said, gsputi over at battleclinic is right about those calculations being wrong as the amount of Effective hit points is dependent on the hardeners.

Even so, the whole trick with the sleepers is that a fleet’s effort is not to outlast them as they do sport formidable tanks, but to outheal their damage output.

Plates will indeed help until the team switches targets and start remote repairing, but since their presence means usually lower resistances, the absolute number of hit points registering as damage is going to be bigger and therefore pose more of a strain in remote repairing. More repairers needed, longer cycles, more cap, and it then goes downhill.

This is more apparent considering that on the more difficult sites there are multiple waves of sleepers, which if handled wrong can eat through buffer tanks like butter by outperforming the remote repairers.

In the end, Quivering’s numbers might be way off the scale and the calculations wrong, but the denominator is the same.