Well, these changes are certainly interseting. Key pointsI have noticed:

The bad:

Reducing Heavy PG and CPU is insanely bad. You cannot build a decent heavy suit already without speccing into drupsuit electronics and engineering. And with my minmatar heavy i need every ounce of pg and cpu i can squeeze out of it. I can only imagine its to combat the heavy + lightweapons combination. Why not just a fitting penaly to light weapons on heavy suits instead?

The good: Everything else. Its a bit broad but i GTG.

Also: Its a bad sign when the CPM0 refers to switching suits out as you need them as "abuse." I distributed my sp bacause i want to play a variety of roles and having players being flexible to switch out as the situation calls for it is something that should be rewarded, not derided. I do think i should keep my equipment bonuses after the equipment is deployed, but i can live without that. and ratatti players use logis more than assaults because assaults are crap, not because logis are suddenly OP.

the GA sentinel is the worst offender, it will be based on slots and not the same reduction for all races

Light damage mods is high on my list for Assault efficacy bonuses

I don't think so. Even the situation you mentioned is easily counterable, flux the spot and spray. And i like having my options so if i see a tanked heavy siting in a nest of hives i can switch out to my mass drive min comando if he's in the open and pummel him from range or sneak behing his stationary butt and R.E. him in my gal scout or rep a friendly heavy as we charge his position in my winmatar logi or take him down my self in a sentinel with flux grendaes.

Cant take my cal logi or a gal logi to fight him though. 1 way trip for the amar scout. And if they nerf the A logi sidearms i'll just have to throw my uplinks at him like frisebee buzzsaws

Can you increase walking speed when equip knife?

So...
Basically...
Armor Assaults will be forced to dual tank?
Because we don't have anything, count, ANYTHING other than extenders to put into high slots without damage mods.

* Reduced small rail range compared to sniper range

Because a small railgun has a max range of 300 meters (at that point your rounds do minimal damage). A sniper rifle can shot up to 600 meters without any falloff which would lower the damage per shot. And if you are complaining about people parking with a gorgon on a roof shot them with a forgegun or snipe them out of the gunner seat. Both is not hard to do.

Rattati,

Part of the reason why the feedback on the logistics/Assault suits is so divided is because you guys basically threw us a spreadsheet and said "tell us what you think about each individual change""

If you want to make large changes like this all at once do it in separate threads.
There should be an update in between Charlie and Delta that is specifically just for these changes.

For example, 5 different threads:

Assault Slot Layout Changes General Feedback
Gallente Assault Discussion
Caldari Assault Discussion
Minmatar Assault Discussion
Amarr Assault Discussion

Then once we have figured that out we can store those threads away and bring up the logistics.
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Another example:

Please discuss the Caldari Assault changes in this thread

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