While I agree with most of your post, I think you're trying to limit what people do unintentionally.

Sure, having a bonus to heat build up on Amarr makes sense, but what if that person decides to use a CR? Should they be punished for using a weapon outside their race? I don't think so, personally. So, in this example, no bonuses to fitting the weapon, just to the use of it.

I fly an Incubus with XT-1's. I forgo the bonuses to the ship to use a weapon that suits my style better. I'm not punished for using the missiles, I just don't get the bonuses to guns, and that's how I feel fittings should go.

Also, my pro Gal logi has a adv CPU mod in the lows. Of course I'd prefer not to have it and fit something that has a more noticeable effect, but it's needed to fit everything else I want to use at the Pro level.

Fittings are all about trade offs.

Enough to do a half prototype fit of the preferred modules. Everything else mostly advanced.

Just out of curiosity what are you fitting that causes you to have to run a cpu mod?

i think the fitting optimization skills are pointless on most weapons now, that's for damn sure. especially with the LP store "specialist" versions

You shouldn't be able to have Prototype Everything.

You have to have sacrifices, this is not Call of Duty or some mainstream RPG where you can go around with all the best equipment willy-nilly and not have consequences.



If you think having prototype everything is good for this game then you are not good for this game.

This game was pitched as "The Thinking Man's shooter" not Generic Mainstream simulator for Idiots: The second Generation if you want that please, by all means, go to Destiny.

Except not everyone plays the faction warfare games, so they do come in handy on certain suit / weapon combos.

My commentary is that for full proto you HAVE to have all level 5 skills regarding fitting bonuses. That will both reward the people who crank the (arguably aggravating and boring time sinks) to the max. But people who just dive in without so much as running up dropsuit electronics will be having a rather rough time exploiting the theoretical OPness of a sentinel suit

Enough to do a half prototype fit of the preferred modules. Everything else mostly advanced.

Are you talking about on a proto suit with skill point investment in the skill tree for electronics ?

Is that maxed out or level 3 or 4 ?

If that's maxed out then I believe that , this type of thinking is part of the problem .

Explain yourself more or better in your reasoning .

Enough to do a half prototype fit of the preferred modules. Everything else mostly advanced.

Your answer begs a follow up question though
Why have pg and cpu restrictions in the first place if we can fit full proto whatever we want

this was the question: Thanks. In your expert opinion, what should the proto sentinelse have in PG/CPU per race?

I think it's the wrong question, and it should pertain to all dropsuits, not just sentinels.

I believe if you have the maxed fitting skills for a fit, you should be able to load an efficient full prototype fit to any prototype suit.

This should be the same at all tiers. If you have an adanced suit you should be able to rock advanced modules with good fitting skills. Proto modules should be used with sacrifices.

If you halfass a scout suit fitting skills, you should have a halfass scout.

same goes for donut-chasing fat bastards like me, for assault and for logi.

And the fits CPU/PG allowances should be geared to racial strengths and weapons. An amarr suit should be optimized for laser weaponry and heavy plate usage and carry the PG/CPU accordingly

Caldari sentinels should have the PG/CPU to fit forge guns, shield extenders/rechargers and a bolt pistol or magsec.
so on and so forth for each racial suit. They should be balanced for racial loadouts. If you wanna customize and change things up, it should be harder, ergo the fitting skills being important.

i think the fitting optimization skills are pointless on most weapons now, that's for damn sure. especially with the LP store "specialist" versions

No I disagree, maxed out with fitting skills, you STILL should not be able to fit full proto on a proto suit. You should be able to fit 80% of your modules at Proto and the rest at advanced.

Then out of your Primary, Secondary, Grenade and Equipment , 1 of these should be advanced.
The idea is that you never have such all powerful fit, instead you have to make sacrifices.

Which is more important
Proto weapon or a Proto Nanohive?
An extra Proto EHP Module or Support Module?

You choose which is more is more important.