Pokey Dravon
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
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Posted - 2013.11.27 18:09:00 -
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Emerald Bellerophon wrote:Not until now. I just took a peek at the forums last night for the first time in a while and saw this ridiculous debate going on. Having played eve off and on for 7 years, the solution took all of 5 seconds to imagine. Perhaps CCP employees don't talk amongst themselves much. I do like your work, though.
Fair enough.
Yeah unfortunately most of the playerbase has band-aid ideas that usually don't really fix the big picture, or they require weird mechanics that violate existing conventions. I will stress time and time again that simply by manipulating bonuses, CPU/PG, and sometimes slot layouts; all dropsuit roles can be easily balanced.
None of this Logi Sidearm only crap or forcing them to max out their equipment slots. If CCP wants the players to use a suit in a certain way, they need to encourage it through bonuses, not rip away abilities.
EDIT: -_- like this guy
Fire of Prometheus wrote:
Removing damage mods is asinine. You don't need to fix a cracked glass by throwing it away, you just need to fix it.
Forcing people to equip equipment is also asinine. You're trying to force the role, not encourage it. Encourage equipment use by making it cheap to equip...shoving it down their throat is not conducive to good game design.
The third suggestion is a good one though, I fully support making Assaults better at killing with an adjustment to damage mods to make them more reasonable.
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Pokey Dravon
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
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Posted - 2013.11.27 18:58:00 -
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Jakar Umbra wrote:Emerald Bellerophon wrote:Give every logi a role bonus reduction to equipment pg/cpu like the Gal logi has now, and cut back on suit pg/cpu. The intended effect is that the logis will still be able to fit all the equipment the want, but have to cut back on mods or weapons to do it (e.g. GEK and not Duvolle), or else cut equipment and still end up an inferior version of an assault suit.
I like how this idea for sidearm-only logis has been kicked around for months and only now everyone's talking about it. I guess it's the forum's fotm. I've stated seen this idea somewhere. You sure you didn't read this idea in another thread?
And my thread is dated long before that link. Ideas get recycled and sometimes people have the same idea. At the end of the day what matters is making the game better and having a good discussion about how to go about doing that. 
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