A few questions:

Are these OBs proposed going to require a squad, or can solo players get access to them?

Does flux imply that they do no armor damage, or simply don't do as much damage as the precision strikes?

Is it possible with the current system to simply allow warbarge strikes to vary based on player choices? For instance, instead of always being a default hybrid strike like now, can I as a squad leader decide whether to use a hybrid strike, laser strike, or EMP strike?

If the blast radius is as tiny as I think it is, I expect it wouldn't be a problem at all.

Will the flux strike hit stuff under surfaces? Because let's not pretend that major positions of uplink spam aren't under a roof.

How well this work in FW? Different times for higher tier strikes maybe?

Lastly, I love this don't get me wrong, but Caldari and Amarr logis will hate you. They get a bonus to consumable equipment and now it's easier to destroy? Maybe new bonuses, but what if instead deployable equipment regenerated over time? Use something like the active scanner timer. You drop an uplink, then you wait for the red ring to go around the circle before you can drop another? Two positives here: 1) Caldari and Amarr logis now will never run out of their specialized equipment and 2) You can't go to a supply depot and spam all the equipment on your fits because after each drop you have to wait to drop another. Of course keep the same max active limit and higher tiers/specific variants can have a shorter cooldown.

He said it targets the MCC, which may or may not mean that it only targets the MCC. If it DOES target only the MCC, then you won't be able to take my tank off me with that strike.

Well then, guess that supply depot room in the Gallente research facility is still going to be annoying.

Guess that's why I'm carrying flux nades.

I'm wondering, how much damage does the MCC precision strike do?

Will it remove 1/4th armor?

Story time!

Back in closed beta, I had the chance to be a squad leader in a decent group. We managed to get an Orbital Strike. Without much information on the game, I did some tactical thinking: "What would happen if I used this on the MCC?"

I dropped it and using my Sniper Rifle, I watched as some of the shots did no damage. That sucks. We lost the match; I gained some valuable intel.

However, I also noticed that some of the shots missed the MCC entirely.

Over the course of the game, if we happened to find snipers on the top of the MCC, it was common practice to try and get them off using a Precision Strike (note: this was before the time of the ADS too). But over the course of time, I noticed it was very difficult to target the MCC and sometimes very easy to miss.

MCC snipers have virtually been eliminated due to the range nerf but I wanted to highlight the fact that the MCC is hard to hit with a Precision Strike. Could this potentially carry over to the Squad Focused Strike (which will probably be nicknamed the "MCC strike")?

I want to put forth a solution to this. A lock-on system.

Now before you think that this strike will be able to lock-on to vehicles or infantry, you would be dead wrong and I would hate to see something like that in place. The lock-on system would work solely with the enemy MCC. We can use an in-game asset as well to illustrate the MCC as a possible lock-on target: the Attack squad order animation. With this, the squad leader could highlight the MCC, the cursor would snap to it when it gets close, and press X to bring in the rain.

Otherwise, we'd hear complaints about a very high WP strike being accused of being RNG because mercs are missing their strike by 100 meters due to a poor relationship between a map cursor and a pseudo 2-D map.

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EDIT:
Not sure how I feel about this.

Can you elaborate on your intention with this?

If I'm interpreting this right, that means "1 equipment type at a time". If I had R-9 Uplinks in 1 equipment slot, deployed both of them, and then tried to lay down a N/11 Flux Uplink, both R-9s pop as my N/11 goes active.

Using the nanohive example from before, I lay down a Ishukone Nanohive down for people to get ammo. But then I lay down a Wiyrkomi Triage Nanohive, the Ishukone pops.

Finally, this is one nobody will bring up as only I and a very select few having these on our suits: Proxy Mines.

I lay down minefields and entrances that vehicles frequent. This will easily kill LAVs and will either kill or severely injure tanks. From my understanding, I lay down my 4 Proximity Mines. But the moment I lay down a F/49 Proximity Mine, those 4 standard Proxies disappear.

Give each suit an "equipment bandwidth" stat like drones in EVE. Have a logi suit with high bandwidth and you can deploy a bunch of stuff. Swap out to a scout suit and all but the most recent equipment (up to the scout's lower bandwidth capacity) will pop. This would limit spam and probably significantly improve performance.