Humans are rarely if ever competent.

Band width only affects one role and all it does is suggest if you want to be able to use the benefits of that role you need to keep using it.

You cannot swap out of being a heavy but keep your Heavy Machine Gun. You cannot swap out of scout and keep your Cloak and bonuses, nor can you swap out of Assault and have your magazine or heat build up bonuses.

If you want the benefits of Logistical suit bandwidth you need to remain in a Logisitcs role on the field until your role is complete or you die.

Bandwidth doesn't get in my way of switching roles. If I play as a logi and set a bunch of uplinks, I can switch to an assault when I feel my team is doing alright enough, and still keep 2 of those uplinks active (an assault can support 2 uplinks). Often the value of the equipment deployed is outweighed by the value of the role you're switching to, so don't worry so much about losing some equipment, and just switch roles if you really feel you need to.

I have no data to make a statement one way or another. I don't interview every blueberry post-patch to see if they were in a squad or not. I simply don't know and neither do you.

A scout can fit a repair tool but he is going to suck in a big way. An assault can fit a nanohive, but those hives will never perform as well as those dropped by a Caldari logi.


Caldari logi I threw together vs. Caldari scout I threw together

Logi: 625.7 eHP, 6 total hives functioning with more nanites and higher resupply/repair rate plus an advanced needle for when the hives run out. Enough bandwidth to deploy 5 hives at once.

Scout: 582.2 eHP, 6 total hives with no bonuses, no needle for when the hives pop. Enough bandwidth to deploy 2 hives at once...

Scout walk/strafe: 5.43m/s
Logi walk/strafe: 4.61m/s

So you are saying that scouts are as good as being a logi because of... 0.82m/s walk/strafe speeds and an advanced weapon?

Your butthurt over bandwidth is noted.

But more to the point, if you consider using a non-AV sidearm as playing another role, you obviously don't understand roles. Roles are specialized.

Logistics have bonuses to specific pieces equipment, and reduction in CPU/PG on their equipment. They can equip a primary weapon and grenade, but does that make the logistic's role to kill people? Not at all. It is a secondary ability that is less effective than suits that are specialized for it.

Same goes for equipment on assaults/scouts. It isn't as effective as logistics, takes up more of your CPU/PG so you have to sacrifice more for it, and you don't get as many pieces of equipment at one time. It's all secondary to assault/scout roles.

So to make my point clear, no, assaults and scouts with equipment are not performing multiple roles at once.

I have to disagree with you on this.

If you are a true logi, you always carry your nanohives with you, to better expedite ammo to team-mates in need. You always carry your uplinks with you so you can create a new spawn point as the battlefield changes and enemy positions change.

Spamming as much equipment as BW lets you then changing to pure active equipment is not, "a true logi." Deployable equipment isn't about having as many as you can on the field, it's about placing them is appropriate locations at appropriate times, and you are doing neither if you place it all at once in relative close proximity to each other.

This is, simply put, the mentality of a WP farmer.