The bandwidth idea has been around for a long time as far as I can remember before CCP Rattati brought it up. I like the idea as well and I'm also cross-training into logistics.

Eve Online players have to deal with bandwidth as well for operating their drones. It's an old concept that is brought into Dust to eliminate the spamming of equipment. I hate seeing equipment spammed around supply depots, spammed all over a city, and stupidly placed in a random spot without thinking it through.

This bandwidth feature will force players to finally think carefully on where to place their equipment, get rid of equipment spam is ruining frame rates, and give logis a stronger role due to their inherent bandwidth advantage over all other suits. This will also ensure that scouts no longer dominate as light-logis.

If you are the only person in the team that has any gun game at all, then there is no hope for your team.

PS: The team is suppose to work together for victory. A single solo player was never meant to win the match for the rest of the team.

Spawning as a Scout or Logistics, throwing Uplinks everywhere, and swapping to a different suit such as a Sentinel is simply too powerful. Let's take a look at two different play styles of the Support Logistics and the Sentinel.

*Sentinel: Heavily armored, moves slowly. Has the highest DPS in the game with a weapon that has short to medium range. Primarily meant for point defense or for attacking a specific location to break into the enemy's base.
*Logistics: Weaker armor than that of the Assault, slower movement. Faster than the Sentinel but has FAR less HP and FAR less DPS. They carry additional equipment to help their team. In short, they give up a lot to have those extra equipment.

Now imagine the balance nightmare of a Sentinel that dropped 2 Uplinks and 4 Triage Nanohives. You have a Sentinel that is no different than a Logistics really. In short, you would be doing two roles at the same time that need to be made completely separate. It lets the developers begin balancing things from there.

I don't really follow the idea of "I am Superman; I need to be able to put Uplinks because my team is worthless!" So many people have said the same thing that with our very small community it is likely that several Superman are on the same team. You can still run in with your Scout to drop Uplinks to help your team get back from the Redline. I don't see how "I need to be able to do everything!" is an acceptable argument against this change. Remember that it affects your opponents too. If they all go Sentinel to hold off a push, no more Uplinks.

It will be a different kind of game. I don't see it being the end of the world or any kind of hyperbole.

Ok, now you're just throwing around wild claims. You're not helping your cause here with this.

I understand your frustration with BW, I am on the fence with it because of how it effects Logi game play. I am glad they did something to help with the useless spam of equipment but there were better ideas presented IMHO.

The largest hurdle I can see right now is going to be Drop Links, because they can not be ignored until it is time to replace them. The thing is going to be not accidentally popping your DL when you place out nano hives for resupplying and having others out all ready that were not completely used.

A little over 20,000 years into the future to be exact according to Eve Online lore. Even then, we did suffer a major technological setback when the Eve Gate collapsed cutting off young colonies from our home galaxy The Milky Way. We were in the dark ages for thousands of years until space flight was finally reinvented hundreds of years ago. Sooooooooooo..... not much progress.