I'm against the idea of Tech I having specializations. Having each dropsuit be suited for a particular role over another is one thing, but full-fledged specializations are something I would rather see from Tech II alone.

And Tech III can be the crazy child that can't seem to fit in.

Try to think of the basic suits like better noob ships and the racial suits as basic, like frigs, destroyers, cruisers, battle cruisers, and battleships; they're more general/flexible. Sure logistics is a kind of specialty, but it a broad specialty able to do a wide variety of logistics tasks. The t2 advanced suits I proposed would be real specialties, designed to do one task really well. Like the triage specialist might only have 2 equipment slots and get large bonuses to nanite injectors and remote reps for shields or armor depending on the race. They might only have a sidearm. They would be poor choices for dropping links or hives. Or the command specialist might be really great at staying alive and boosting his allies with warfare links, but with fairly modest DPS.

Try to think of the basic suits like better noob ships and the racial suits as basic, like frigs, destroyers, cruisers, battle cruisers, and battleships; they're more general/flexible. Sure logistics is a kind of specialty, but it a broad specialty able to do a wide variety of logistics tasks. The t2 advanced suits I proposed would be real specialties, designed to do one task really well. Like the triage specialist might only have 2 equipment slots and get large bonuses to nanite injectors and remote reps for shields or armor depending on the race. They might only have a sidearm. They would be poor choices for dropping links or hives. Or the command specialist might be really great at staying alive and boosting his allies with warfare links, but with fairly modest DPS.

Your skill trees are too open, from what I can tell anyway.
You appear to only have 1 step between choosing your suit size and your factional specialisation, this is not good.

No offence, but add somd more intermediary steps, as if you are asking a series of questions?

What suit size do you want?
What role do you want?
What faction do you want?

Focus on a tree that expands regularly, not all at once.

This is an interesting suggestion, in other words, adding depth to the noob tree. One concern is what you would bonus a generic assault/logi/etc. for?

Well from what I'm understanding, Assault Suits will have 2 light weapon slots in Legion, like a commando did. So you just give a simple generic bonus

Assault: 50% Light Weapon Fitting Cost
Logistics: 50% Equipment Fitting Cost

allows those to parse up the tree, then you just let the layouts do the talking, no need to change any suit stats or anything yet, let the player get used to the role before you start adjusting the suits.

When designing a skill tree you have to imagine that each node is a room, with each door on the room leading to a new one.
If you give someone too many doors they will never bother going past that level.

You need to guide someone through the tree BEFORE the ISIS overlay. Think about it with weapons.


What kimda weapon do you want?
A shotgun
Here is a shptgun, go play with it a while.

Did you like the shotgun?
Yeah, but I would prefer less rounds and more damage
Here then try a Breach Shotgun, enjoy!

Did you like it?
No it just didn't fit my style, I need something faster firing
How about the Assault Shotgun? Have a try

Well?
It's awsome, though I want even faster
Then how about a Minmatar Assault Shotgun?
Oh hell yes!

This how your skills tree should feel like a mentor, a friend, not just the Construct

Winmatar shotty = MD.................

Based on what weGÇÖve heard of CCP ZGÇÖs proposed progression system for Project Legion, I (and many others) think it is the wrong direction. IGÇÖve written at length about it here. I know CCP Z is in a difficult position. Based on his remarks, itGÇÖs not difficult to infer that DUST is very far away from meeting its financial targets. I agree that we need significant changes to expand the player base exponentially. It is essential that Project Legion is financially successful if it is to ever mature into the game we all want it to be.

CCP Z pointed out several problems with the existing progression system in his Progression session at Fanfest. I have put a fair bit of effort to draft an alternative Progression system that tries to more closely follow EVE. It meets the accessibility goals without alienating the player base that enjoys DUST BECAUSE its progression system is similar to EVE which has proven successful for over a decade and manages to keep many players engaged in DUST despite the gameGÇÖs long list of flaws (ThatGÇÖs a pretty major indicator of success right there).

Let me preface this with the caveat that IGÇÖm not a graphics designer and the mockups are pretty ugly. I do OS X and iOS development in my spare time though and IGÇÖve studied a fair bit of User Interaction (UX) design. Some of the proposed details are pretty rough. The goal isnGÇÖt to nit-pick details, but focus on the broad outline and usability concepts for how we can make a deep/rich/complex progression system (that many of us love) a lot more accessible to a new player. Below are the linked images (The skill tree diagram is huge, just zoom and scroll):

Skill Tree Interface Mockup
GÇ£ISISGÇ¥ Analog Mockup
Skill Tree Diagram

IGÇÖd love to hear your feedback.

Lol I think u may need to rename the thing from ISIS to something different lol