Malkai Inos
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Posted - 2014.07.23 21:05:00 -
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True Adamance wrote:Fox Gaden wrote:Onesimus Tarsus wrote:Simple.
Racial purity bonus. The more your gear matches your chosen race, the more points you get. The more your squad matches racially, same thing. Ditto for Team inside a match.
Well, simple in comparison to other things. Would make sense as a modifier on how fast you earn faction standing. It would take racial prejudicious into account. It would make sense that the Amarr Empire would be quicker to gain trust in an Amarrian using a Laser Rifle than a Gellente using a Combat Rifle. That doesn't make sense. He means in the sense that an Amarrian dropsuit is designed to interface with Amarrian weapons systems. That does make sense. We already have this in the form of role/class bonuses that apply to the respective racial equivalent of [primary class tool] the most.
Unless you meant general bonuses on top of that just for matching racial gear. Then we're back to "set bonuses" that artificially stifle fitting freedom.
You can take a benign object, -you can take a cheeseburger and deconstruct it to its source...
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Malkai Inos
Any Given Day
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Posted - 2014.07.23 21:42:00 -
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True Adamance wrote:No I don't mean over arcing bonuses.
Each suit should have a singular shared role bonus, then a singular secondary racial bonus that influence "how that role is carried out". Isn't this what we have. If not, where's the difference? (genuine question because I'd say this sentence aligns with the current system)
True Adamance wrote:Beyond that it doesn't stifle any freedom. I-Shayz-I is still free to put a Freedom Mass Driver on his Amarr Commando and go 57/1 I am still free to put X weapon on Y suit and use it to 100% of that suit and weapons normal capacity, however if I use the corresponding weapon on the corresponding suit I get modifiers. 100% stops being the 100% as soon as use introduce 105% (so to speak) into the environment.
Fits don't operate in a vacuum. They compete against each other so that giving a certain combination "bonuses" for being racially matched is functionally identical to giving the other combination a "malus" for being racially mixed.
Suddenly your fit's power comes not just from the sum of its parts and how well they synergize with each other and your playstile. There is also this outside modifier that makes your suit better or worse depending on "purity", not because the more "pure" fit is inherently better, but because this outside modifier makes it better.
That's the basic problem with set-items and how they do, in fact stifle, freedom. You cannot just exchange one item for another that, on its own, would a better choice if it turns out you'll lose your "bonus" doing so which eats up the benefit of the exchange in the first place.
You can take a benign object, -you can take a cheeseburger and deconstruct it to its source...
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