Pokey Dravon
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
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Posted - 2014.06.23 05:49:00 -
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I think there are a couple of goals I think we should try to meet here.
- Make SP spent on Frame Suits mean more than just unlocking the specialty suit
- Make Frame suits feel like they are a more generalized suit
- Make Frame Suits more useful than the specialty suits in cases where flexibility is necessary.
- Make Specialty suits be a big upgrade in their specific role, but a small nerf in other areas that fall outside the specialty, thus making Specialty NOT a straight upgrade from Frame.
So to start, I completely agree that the Frames need a bonus, and that bonus to a degree needs to be transferred over to the Specialty suits, not only to make the specialty suits more useful, but to also give people an incentive to level them to 5. Let me be clear, I'm a big fan of having the specialty suit being unlocked at Frame Level 3, but by giving the Frame bonuses that also apply to the specialty, you encourage leveling 4 and 5.
Again keeping with the concept that we want the Frame suits to be general use, but still useful, we should give them bonuses that are general use, but make sense for that particular frame of suit. When those bonuses transfer to the specialty suit however, they should affect that specific specialty and not maintain the general use bonus, as to allow frame suits to do things that specialty suits can not.
One idea I've been tossing around is giving fitting cost reduction bonuses to frame suits. They would be broad bonuses which would help newer players while they unlock more suits, but also allow veterans to do special fits that may not be available on specialty suits due to resource limitations.
However when applied to the specialty suits, the fitting bonus should only be for that specialty, I wont go into all of the variants right now, but here is a general idea of what I'm thinking (Minmatar for example).
Medium Frame Suits:
+% Reduction to PG/CPU Cost of Shield & Armor Modules/Level of Medium Frames
+% Reduction to PG/CPU Cost of Light Weapons/Level of Medium Frames
Minmatar Logistics Suits:
+% Reduction to PG/CPU of Equipment / Level of Medium Frames
(You can see the theme of resource cost reduction is maintained, but only applied to the aspects of Logistics, instead of a general bonus)
+% Efficiency of Equipment / Level of Logistics
+% Range/Repair Rate of Repair Tools / Level of Minmatar Logistics
Minmatar Assault Suits:
+% Reduction to PG/CPU of Light Weapons & Sidearms / Medium Frames
(Again the philosophy of resource cost reduction is maintained but is made less general and more specialized)
+% Light Weapon & Sidearm Damage / Level of Assault Suits
+% Magazine Capacity to Minmatar Weapons / Level of Minmatar Assault
Like my ideas?
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