Midas Fool
Prophets of the Velocirapture
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Posted - 2014.11.08 09:39:00 -
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My input:
- No tiers, always PRO. Costs ~5000 Isk. Orange, Brown, or White color scheme.
- More HP than light frame (almost Logistics levels). Why? So that LAVs work, and a chance at winning a duel.
- Same speed as existing Light frames. Same jump/sprint/stamina. Why? To run away.
- Terrible scan precision, but good innate dampening (slightly more than light frame). Once again, to facilitate escape.
- Skill requires Racial Light Frame trained to 1. "Racial Pilot Dropsuit" skill costs half the SP of other Specializations.
- Enough fitting at max core/fitting skills (except Amarr) to either fit at least a PRO sidearm and a piece of STD equipment or vice versa and one Complex module (except Minmatar, lol).
Pilot Suit Bonus: -2% vehicle module recharge delay per level, automatic RDV priority.
Amarr: 1 high, 1 low, 1 S, 1 equipment. Bonus: +4% Base vehicle armor HP/level, 2% vehicle weapon damage/level
Caldari: 2 high, 0 low, 1 S, 1 equipment. Bonus: +4% Base vehicle shield HP/level, 2% vehicle weapon reload/level
Gallente: 0 high, 2 low, 1 S, 1 equipment. Bonus: +4% Vehicle armor repair module repair rate, 2% vehicle top speed/level
Minmatar: 1 high, 1 low, 1 S, 1 equipment. Bonus: -4% Base vehicle shield recharge delay, 2% vehicle acceleration/level
Simple and effective. No need to over-complicate things. Maybe some different combos.
Why should this suit not be combat-viable? I think it should at least be able to fight one aggressor.
Will this really even affect balance? I think the biggest factor in vehicle balance has been resistances, so these suits would have no such bonuses. I wish my LAV was covered up...hopefully they are part of the equation here...
Also, why is the word "dropsuit" misspelled on this forum?
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Midas Fool
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Posted - 2014.11.08 10:59:00 -
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Lost Apollo wrote:No tiers simply would not be viable . Without them, how would your suggestion of 2% mod recharge delat per LEVEL work? They should cost just as much as any other proto suit. Before you bring up the cost of vehicles, look at the cost of running full (or as closs as possible) proto gear on infantry costs. ( the proto breach AR is 77k isk I believe ) Running a proto suit with adv mods and equipment cost around 150K, per fit used. I'm not being an ass here, just arguing the other sidd.
The level bonus is independent of tier. For example, my STD Assault gets the same bonuses a PRO does, because I have it trained to 5. In the same fashion, the pilot suit would accrue bonuses with SP, but would not unlock what would be ADV and PRO suits. Does that make sense?
I don't think they should cost as much as a regular specialization's PRO variant. The vehicle itself costs a ton of cash. You can't expect a pilot to pay the full amount for a PRO suit that is relatively much weaker. A few bonuses are not worth adding another chunk of expense to the vehicle.
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