I'd much rather see growth horizontally (racial parody with weapons, vehicles, turrets, etc. among other things) than growth vertically (adding more tiers to stuff).

Not to mention that these ideas seem to benefit vets more and leave the newer players even further behind and moving farther away from tier-icide.

Spectre - Assault
~ Bonus to scan dampening and reduced fitting for cloaking devices
~ Loses weapon fitting reductions, possibly module slots
Cross between assault and scout, lacking the speed and versatility of either

Operator - Logistics
~Increased scan radius and precision
~Sidearm only
True support at the expense of offensive capability

Made a new thread since I can't find the other one for the life of me. Mostly just a few spit-balled ideas I was thinking about while bored at work. Most of this is based on the (dramatic) misconceptions I had back in closed beta over some items on the test server (bear in mind that a lot of the stuff in that post never came to fruition).

Spectre - Assault
~ Bonus to scan dampening and reduced fitting for cloaking devices
~ Loses weapon fitting reductions, possibly module slots
Cross between assault and scout, lacking the speed and versatility of either

Shrike - Commando
~Gains grenade slot and increased grenade splash damage/radius
~Loses equipment slot and reload speed bonus
Grenadier who depends on others to supply powerful crowd control

Titan - Sentinel
~Gains increased heavy weapon potential or defense
~Loses all stamina. Cannot jump, sprint, or melee.
True point defense.

Insurgent - Scout
~Gains increased damage bonus and equipment slot.
~Loses cloak fitting reduction and dampening bonus.
Light field logi with a sidearm, without stealth and equipment bonuses

Operator - Logistics
~Increased scan radius and precision
~Sidearm only
True support at the expense of offensive capability

Wraith - Commando
~Bonuses to range and mag capacity
~Loses bonus to damage and reload speed
Suppression unit with bonus based on racial weaponry

Feel free to discuss or throw out your ideas.

I think about T2 items... Have no ideas about suits, but weapons may have 2-3 shooting modes for combat rifle single, burst and auto, the same damage at every mode, but different accuracy and range, or maybe 2 type of sights. But T2 must have huge SP investments.

There is no future in "Mooooaaaarrrrr bonuses"

Made a new thread since I can't find the other one for the life of me. Mostly just a few spit-balled ideas I was thinking about while bored at work. Most of this is based on the (dramatic) misconceptions I had back in closed beta over some items on the test server (bear in mind that a lot of the stuff in that post never came to fruition).

Spectre - Assault
~ Bonus to scan dampening and reduced fitting for cloaking devices
~ Loses weapon fitting reductions, possibly module slots
Cross between assault and scout, lacking the speed and versatility of either

Shrike - Commando
~Gains grenade slot and increased grenade splash damage/radius
~Loses equipment slot and reload speed bonus
Grenadier who depends on others to supply powerful crowd control

Titan - Sentinel
~Gains increased heavy weapon potential or defense
~Loses all stamina. Cannot jump, sprint, or melee.
True point defense.

Insurgent - Scout
~Gains increased damage bonus and equipment slot.
~Loses cloak fitting reduction and dampening bonus.
Light field logi with a sidearm, without stealth and equipment bonuses

Operator - Logistics
~Increased scan radius and precision
~Sidearm only
True support at the expense of offensive capability

Wraith - Commando
~Bonuses to range and mag capacity
~Loses bonus to damage and reload speed
Suppression unit with bonus based on racial weaponry

Feel free to discuss or throw out your ideas.

Why not make it work like t2 items in eve. They should gain a bonus from the advanced skills and the basic skills, maybe gain a role bonus too

They already have a multitude of bonuses as is and I think that adding more onto that would just further increase the gap between new player and veteran.