First off, Put the proper time and effort into Fixing Needles.

You have effectively killed it and removed an entire part of the game that could of been great.

I Have spent two years posting about Needles. I Have posts with thousands of likes regarding -1 death from needle use.

Logis are fine with a WP cap over time for reviving, everyone is fine with it.

Removing an entire part of the game instead of building and adding to it... IS going backwards.

I Hate "I Told you So's" But there are hundreds of times now that I have given CCP plenty of forward warning about purposed changes that will hurt the game and they went ahead and screwed themselves anyway.

IS there a point to feedback if a Developers mind is already closed?

Absolutley correct.

Logi has no place in combat, since losing the efficiency over for asault/scout/etc.
Nobody wants to lose better fighter in pursuit of efficiency, it makes logi stupid suit for battlefield preparation.
You can remove his rifle - he does not need. Once equpment drop - play Mario.

Yeah no, I disagree...but if you go spawn in as a heavy..yeah all dat logi equipment say bye bye.

In team they ok. Solo - they useless.

A couple points about some of this.

Scouts with two slots aka the scout logi: This is rarely used to deploy equipment at logistic levels. They will still use a rep tool and needles just as well as any non minmatar logi, or the same with uplinks with any non amarr logi. I don't see any change here. The only deployable they spam are R.Es, which has its own major issues.

Quality: Then there must be a decrease in high tier equipment prices. Proto equiment, especially nano hives are tremendously expensive both in terms of PG/CPU and isk.

On the contrary, Heavy proliferation started when they got an inadvertent buff in 1.8 when all weapons -besides- HMGs received a 10% damage nerf and Proficiency was changed. The HMG had a really good balance in 1.7 due to the implementation of proper spread and increased rate-of-fire (which sky rocketed it's DPS) but that balance was upset when it's DPS was left alone by comparison of it's competition.

If HMGs received a DPS nerf to compensate for what the rest of us are dealing with, I think it'd establish a good balance. More-so then heat mitigation gameplay ever will. Talking 5%, 10% at most. It's not something we couldn't undo if it wound up being problematic either but experimenting with heat mitigation every hotfix clearly isn't warranting enough of an impact. Again, as previously stated elsewhere, the problem isn't so much the one heavy as ten heavies stacking on top of one another. That is something heat mitigation will never fix.

According to my understanding of the system, the statement above is false. In actuality, ifI start the match as a Logi with 24Bw (For the sake of argument) and use up all of my bandwidth to put down equipment in the order -

1. Flux Uplink
2. Gauged Uplink
3. Triage Nanohive
4. Remote explosive

- then when I switch suits, my equipment will be destroyed in reverse order until I reach my new suit's bandwidth. That is to say that I would still have an active Flux and Gauged uplink on the field, but no nanohive or remote explosive. Thus, no one is being "shoe-horned" into a role. If you plan on making dynamic changes to your loadout, then plan your equipment deployment carefully.

For the sake of opening more options, I could agree with a module that increases a suits Bw (up to a maximum suit value of 24) so that players who wish to sacrifice something to keep their equipment alive in a different suit would also have recourse to do so