2 and 3.
2 doesn't necessarily have to be something as awful as a reload bonus or recoil reduction bonus, I see no reason why it couldn't be a small damage bonus. The Amarr and Minmatar assaults have solid main bonuses (although a useful secondary one would be most welcome), it's just that the suits themselves are poor compared to the other suits.

for me the answer to all our problems is to make it a racial medium suit bonus with a seperate role bonus specific to assault effectiveness.

make the racial medium suit bonus specific to the weapon type damage and range of that race which should give it overall better damage/range combination over all the other classes putting them in a stronger position. then make the assault bonus specific to a task the assault could fill. my suggestion is av/and combat logistics like RE/Scanners.

then do the same for logis. with the medium damage bonus specific to mediums suits they could roll with the assaults but with support logistics like repairs and nanos. together they compliment and protect each other while they do their roles but if not needed they can still go out and kill equally as effective

I don't really see why it was split tbh. To me, it should just be two bonuses:
1. Racial weapon bonus.
2. Regeneration bonus.

if you cant offset a weakness, then enhance a strength. give them more optimal range lol

Are you nuts? Drop the spool up time on the RR and that thing becomes redonkulous. Drop the charge sniper time and I will immediately skill back into the cal assault for my counter-sniping suits. I guess you could drop the lock time of swarms too... *moves away before Atiim starts drooling or sporting wood*

That bonus would be amazing and at least on par with the Amarr assault bonus, which as we all know is the current benchmark.

I also support a secondary "survivability" bonus to the Assaults too, that makes a lot of sense:
- Better armor regen for Gallente
- Reduced armor speed penalty for Amarr
- A mixed bonus for Minmatar of some kind makes sense to me, maybe better shields but not as good as caldari, a little better armor regen, but not like gallente?
- Caldari with the lower delay


Now that leaves us with the logi suits...
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Logi suits are never off topic!

Not a bad idea, but I've always liked the idea of a defensive bonus, too. The inherent reps of old were great, unfortunately they got abused by killer bees.

If doing it your way, personally I'd like to see a secondary generic bonus to ALL equipment instead of just one more. To me it makes more sense that logi suits would be designed that way.

Just spitballing, maybe set it up so that at level 5 of, for example, the Amarr logi, you get the current bonus to uplinks plus the equivalent of level 2 of all the other logi suits?

Seeing as the racial bonuses have never reflected for any of the hybrid weapons I chose, it's worthless.

I've tried ALL versions of the rail rifle and assault rifles with the Gallente assault suits with no effect to my stats when fitting these items. Proficiency (fitting) has no reduction on my PG usage either. It never has over the past two updates and hotfixes. The bonuses dont allow that one PG or CPU point to squeeze in a complex module over an enhanced item. I dont know if it's a glitch or maybe the bonuses only apply to faction weapons as those have to be purchased with loyalty points of which I have none.

There is no change. I completed a support ticket today to see what is said. If it's of merit, I will post the information on this thread if that's ok with you. I didn't want to derail the topic too much.

I would prefer bonuses to be generalized.
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