Remove the sidearm from the only proto suit i've been able to afford and that pretty much seals the deal for me to never return to Dust.

I understand the idea of normalizing the slot layouts but I feel its the wrong way to go personally. The sidearm on the Amarr Logi is what made that suit fun. Having experienced having a sidearm and 3 equipment I could never go back to only having a single weapon.

I honestly can't see a reason why you would run a logistics suit over a scout unless you want to run a minmatar medic suit.

Amarr logi bridged the gap between minmatar medic and scout-logis. If you look at the numbers, something tells me the Amarr and Minmater logi suits probably greatly outnumber the caldari and gallente logis now. Its not hard to imagine why that might be, uplinks and rep tools are by far the most useful equipments available.

I would love to see the number on logi suits in general, in pubs there are enough WP farmers running rep tools to keep the numbers high but they are becoming rather underpowered in general.

With scouts and heavies the way they are after 1.7 and 1.8 it seems that straight buffs to the medium suits make more sense to me. imho... adding a sidearm to caldari and doing a slot normalization that way makes much more sense. You have caldari and amarr as 'combat logi' suits with bonuses more oriented towards being near the frontline (uplinks and ammo) while minmatar and gallente logis would be more inclined to focus on their 'active equipment' using rep tools and scanners more in general and not being so inclined to need a sidearm.

I have gotten used to the logi without a sidearm. My playstyle has adjusted for it. I don't think they need sidearms. I do think that logis need to be left alone, period. Fixing what isn't broke is not the solution here.

Under no circumstance should Assaults be allowed to become better at assaulting things than Logis. Logis have been better than Assault at assaulting things since Uprising 1.0; changing it now would be wholly unfair to everyone involved.

Same goes for commandos, fine-rifle heavies and high-HP Scouts. We shouldn't be trying to shoehorn slayers into suits built for slaying. When it comes to assaulting things, the Assaults should remain worse than the other frames.

I see your "across the board" balance and raise you racial variety. The different racial suits offer different aspects that has their own advantages and disadvantages. Or it can be said that each race has a certain playstyle within each role that compliments your own.

A balance across board is wrong here. Why have Logis all the same? Then we might as well eliminate races within the Dust universe and just have the typical FPS class roles.

There is just too much nitpicking. The people want game modes. Not to have to constantly argue about the unicorn of balance across the board with all races.

In other words, the cake is a lie.

The solution is to make the assault a worthwhile class to play.