How do the skill multipliers work?

CCP abused us all, didn't you know.

Everybody left is just here on Stockholm Syndrome.

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I cant find an exact number for the active cap. 185,000?
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The active cap is 190400 per week.

How necessary are damage mods? I can kill people pretty easily. They just keep strafing back and forth, burst firing when they enter my sights seems to work. Doesn't any one use cover? Its a bit hilarious watching people die trying to dodge bullets.

This character came with 10,000,000 Skill points. After a few hours examining the skill tree I don't think it will be enough.

Logistics.

Have a fit for nanohives and uplinks, spam those at the start of the match, then switch to your scanner / rep / injector and soak up those points from your squad / random blueberries.

Most WP for least effort = fastest character progression

I have an alt with 9 mil SP that's a heavy. You could take it into PC. proto suit, complex plates, complex damage mods, etc.

I think heavy is the lowest SP investment, but the Caldari and Min heavies will take more SP to shine.

I have tried a militia heavy suit. It's just not combat effective enough for me. It doesn't do well in a fight because it is slow and cumbersome. I do better in a militia medic and those are free.

Just going off of the OP.

You can easily put 25 million SP into logi. It's by far the most SP intensive.

Heavy's with HMG's are the superior cqc fighter in most aspects. What a lot of heavy players like to do to negate their slow movement is drive around in an LAV and hose down any players running around by themselves.
Another thing you might want to know about is that, other than scouts, all suits have a built in scanning range of about 10 Meters (which is right in the heavy's kill zone.) So a heavy may be hiding behind a corner while you're walking up to an objective and you won't see him until you're in his clutches.

That is where profile damps, Precision enhancers, and range amplifiers would be beneficial if you're looking to avoid harder targets until you get a better vantage point.

Heavy's with HMG's are the superior cqc fighter in most aspects. What a lot of heavy players like to do to negate their slow movement is drive around in an LAV and hose down any players running around by themselves.
Another thing you might want to know about is that, other than scouts, all suits have a built in scanning range of about 10 Meters (which is right in the heavy's kill zone.) So a heavy may be hiding behind a corner while you're walking up to an objective and you won't see him until you're in his clutches.

That is where profile damps, Precision enhancers, and range amplifiers would be beneficial if you're looking to avoid harder targets until you get a better vantage point.

If you are starting with 10 million SP, first thing you should get is Core Upgrades 5, Electronics 5, and Engineering 5.

It hurts, and it sucks saving for those later. Just get them now.

Then you can figure out what kind of playstyle you want later (fyi dont spend any SP in dropsuit command until 1.8 for sure).

Then decide if you want an equipment based build (logi), an assault rifle based build (assault), a high ehp and slower moving heavy build, or a quick, low hp + cloaking scout build.

Then you can build your weapon and shield/armor considerations around your dropsuit choice and go from there.

Logistics.

Have a fit for nanohives and uplinks, spam those at the start of the match, then switch to your scanner / rep / injector and soak up those points from your squad / random blueberries.

Most WP for least effort = fastest character progression

this is really soul less we are basically min maxing a suit out for him... but there is a lot of good information for new players here and it answers a lot of questions not covered in the tutorial, so I'll lend my expertise.

it looks like you're a heavy, your job is tanking and dealing absurd amounts of damage. you have the most health of any suit in the game but the trade off is that you're slow and have a high scan profile. I'm a scout so I don't know much about heavys but scanning and stealth is my trade.

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you inquired about scan precision, radius, & profile.

scan profile: how easy it is for scanners to pick you up. (the lower your profile the better)
scan precision: every suit has a built in scanner, the precision of your scanner is how "good" that scanner is.(low is good)
scan range: the range in meters of your suits built in scanner.(default is 10m for heavys i think)

how does it work?
lets say you have a scan profile of 65db
and I have a scanner with a scan precision of 55db
since my suit scanner's precision is lower than your profile you appear on my mini map as long as you are in range of the scanner and a red chevron appears above your head even if you're in cover or behind a wall. if your scan profile is lower than my scan precision, however, you don't appear on the map or get the red chevron.

the same effect as being scanned is produced by having someone in your line of sight (LoS). LoS has a perfect precision and is impossible to avoid by lowering scan profile(for now). LoS scans have a range of 90 meters [citation needed] so anything outside of 90m will not appear on your mini map or get the chevron even if you're looking right at them.(not sure how LoS scan is effected by sniper scopes)

"YOU HAVE BEEN SCANNED"
some players use "active" scanners this is a piece of equipment that provides a temporary boost to the user's scan range and precision. it adds a orange red pulse affect to scanned enemies that will fade over time. the downside of using an active scanner is that enemies scanned by it get the "you have been scanned" pop up on their screens alerting them to the fact their position is compromised. a suit's built in (passive) scanner doesn't give any warning to the enemy. active scanner results are also shared between all members of a squad. were passive scan isn't.
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why none of that matters to a heavy

you're a heavy, as you have undoubtedly noticed you have the highest profile and precision of any suit and I don't think any heavy suit can fit an active scanner. scanning and it's related skills are all but useless to a heavy because it's scan range is terrible and it's precision and profile are so high that they can't reasonably be brought down with the use of modules. your slots would be better served with using the slots to add tank and dps. if you get scanned just yell "COME AT ME BRO" because there is no efficient way to avoid it.

I agree more or less. And I even love my heavy repping logi suit. I just played in an epic Domination with maybe 5 or 6 heavies per side with HMGS at A. What a blast! I died 11 times, 5 or so in OBs , but it was worth it! You do get loads of warpoints, but fewer kills maybe ... if you actually repair ... Only got 5 or so kills in this battle . The grinding can get a little boring .

I haven't bought a dropsuit yet. Just watching and learning. I have been cleaning up after some PRO suits that shatter enemy positions. I get assists and kills and throw down ammo.

I did purchase militia suits light and heavy and each race. I am not sure what I like yet.