Capacitive Plates

"Capacitive Plates use highly charged capacitors to neutralize incoming damage to modules. They're extremely effective for their mass."

General
Capacitive Plates boast superior mass efficiency and are used by many high-level players.

Advantages
Capacitive Plates directly replace their prerequisites with respect to level, not only because of their efficiency, but also due to the lower build cost and XP.

Disadvantages
Iridium Plates IV/V and Zynthium Plates I/III/IV are still being used in place of Capacitive Plates due to mass restrictions, in order to fully utilize the available space on modules.

Trivia

 * The equipping time of all old blueprint items for bases was reduced by half during the May 2020 update.