As a CPM I gather feedback from all sorts of areas from in-game, Twitter, Skype, forums, to IRC. I don't really feel that any form of communication really supersedes others and each have their advantages.

I've often have folks on Skype direct me to a specific forum post that they feel has gotten lost in the shuffle and I've found this extremely useful.

While it's true that being in a rapid iteration cycle can make getting feedback in a timely fashion more difficult, the idea that CCP doesn't pay attention to the forums and they are somehow useless is just not the case.

The unlimited amount of equipment was always there, even in closed beta.

At one point I had actually stress tested it and made logistics fits with a variety of different assets to see if there was any limitation - the result was putting down so many nanohives and drop uplinks that it reduced the frame-rate rather extensively; hence my reasoning for believing that the root of many of the original PC FPS issues was directly associated with the mass deployment of equipment.

It's nothing new and it certainly is time consuming placing it all down.

One thing that many people forget though is that no matter how much equipment there is it can always be removed (far faster than deployed even) with Flux Grenades.

It's pretty clear to me that LogiBro considers multiple types of equipment to be "unlimited" even though it is very clearly limited to the number of types available multiplied by the per type deployed allowed. This reveals a certain amount of hyperbole.

The only "fix" to that is to pop any equipment that isn't also equipped on your next suit, and the only explanation is that each piece requires constant CPU and PG from your suit (how a deployed hive all the way across the battlefield gets PG from my suit I'll never understand. If that's the case it should pop the moment my suit disolves and well before I respawn).

Let's just take it to the logical conclusion and pop every bit of deployed equipment the moment a merc dies.

I haven't specifically tested it ... but I understand each item has it's own maximum deployable quantity ... so for instance a proto guaged nanohive you can drop 3 ... then when you drop a fourth the first one disappears ... but you can then drop a proto triage hive or 2 or 3 up to the maximum ... then you can go switch suits and drop 3 advanced K2 hives and 3 advanced K17/D hive and so on and so on until you have every type of hive deployed to it's maximum ...

Then you can change to your drop uplink set of fittings and spam the field with them (though people seem to use these first cos they get more points)

There just needs to be a global limit per player of say 6 or 7 hives and 3 or 4 Uplinks (not sure what the limits are on these) but enough so you can make a fitting with 2 slots filled with the same type, hive or uplink, and not exceed the maximum 2 proto versions allows, so for a proto guaged and proto triage I think it's 7 (or it might be 6 I forget) ... if you restock or change fitting your first deployed hive disappears when you start deploying more ... same for uplinks.