there was something like this a while ago, I think it was called the commander suit or something? Basically it was going to be a heavy that provided bonuses to team-mates nearby, possibly with specialized modules.

this was allready confrimed

Yep, this isn't a new idea. I think it might make sense to make a command vehicle that does this. Have it be slow, expensive, weak DPS (Maybe light turrets only) and have a gigantic tank. I think it would be cool if these took the form of walkers. They would fit warfare link modules that had these types of effects on players within x radius (maybe 100m?). I think these would be pretty amazingly cool to add, but honestly there are so many other areas that are more important, that I wouldn't even want CCP to work on these for a couple of years, with all of the other higher priority stuff still to get done.

I have been thinking about these for some time but i have been pretty hesitant about making a thread for it because Squads are already very powerful just by having groups of people you know, but for the 90% of you who are obviously to all things EVE in EVE there are Leadership skills and in the simplest way to explain it goes off the squad leaders skill he trained into leadership and gives boosts to squad leaders

So lets say something like this:
Armor Warfare: 1-2% bonus to squad mates total Armor per level
Siege Warfare: 1-2% bonus to squad mates total Shield per level
Skirmish warfare: 1-2% bonus to squad mates total sprint speed per level
Information warfare: 1-2% bonus to use of electronic modules per level.

I'm not sure if these should be for all squad members in game or if it should only effect people within a certain area of the squad leader, 50 meters for example.

Those are just some examples the numbers are low for boosts as i said before squads by themselves are already so good but i feel thing like this would give players more of an encouragement ot run in squads and join corporations.

Then maybe limit the max squad members by adding leadership skill
Squad leader: 1 member in your squad per level
Platoon leader: 1 squad under your control per level(For when team deployment gets released im not supporting team deployment as it might be just to much in public and FW matches but if it does come out.)


Thoughts? would you be interested in something like this to be added to dust 514. i personally think it is currently on the minds of the Dust 514 dev and will be coming into play during the next year.