Goric Rumis
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Posted - 2014.04.03 21:34:00 -
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The bonus should be a hard bonus applied to the suit, not a scaled bonus applied to the skill. See cloak fittings in EVE: a particular ship gets a 90% reduction to fitting a cloak, regardless of skill level, because that ship is made to work with cloaks. Should be the same with Scout suits. It's the only way to balance out both ability to fit cloaks and inability to fit anything and everything you want.
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Goric Rumis
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Posted - 2014.04.21 14:52:00 -
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Joseph Ridgeson wrote:Goric Rumis wrote:The bonus should be a hard bonus applied to the suit, not a scaled bonus applied to the skill. See cloak fittings in EVE: a particular ship gets a 90% reduction to fitting a cloak, regardless of skill level, because that ship is made to work with cloaks. Should be the same with Scout suits. It's the only way to balance out both ability to fit cloaks and inability to fit anything and everything you want. I thought about it but decided against the suggestion as it allows some more progression this way while still working at Scout 1. I can see the point (and to an extent agree) with a flat role bonus but I figured such a huge change from the "DUST mentality" to the "EVE mentality" would go over as well as a cottage cheese boat.
My suggestion simplifies the math and makes it easier to balance the fitting capabilities of Scout frames from standard to prototype. It has nothing to do with "EVE mentality" versus "DUST mentality," it's a completely practical suggestion that happens to work like a mechanism in EVE, so I used an example to clarify my suggestion. And I doubt there would be any issue with how this "goes over" because it's already unlike anything else in the game.
My suggestion also helps to reduce the importance of cloaks to the role of Scouts. Making it a skill bonus suggests that to get the most out of your SP you should expect to always use a cloak. Just see how logis talk about their respective racial bonuses (I don't always fit nanohives, so why would I skill into Caldari Logi?). If on the other hand you're just saying that a scout can fit a cloak like normal equipment, there's less pressure to take advantage of the bonus.
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