Xocoyol Zaraoul
Superior Genetics
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Posted - 2015.03.02 23:13:00 -
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Personally I'd like Pilot Suits to increase "quality of life" of vehicles, and not actual combat performance like EHP, this way we can actually see some point in using them without disrupting balance:
First:
- Make it where you have to hold down the "enter/exit" button to enter vehicles, or make it where there is at least a delay. make it substantial, such as 1 second for LAVs, 2 for derpships, 3 for hippos, or whatever. You get the point.
Next, for the pilot suits:
- Light Frame.
- Sidearm only.
- 2/2/2 equipment slots for basic/adv/proto (This will not shadow logis as they will be very fragile), ideally used for a cloak/repper.
- Bright Orange.
- Adds bonus to recalling and entering/exiting vehicles per level and bonus to rep tool on vehicles.
- Add interesting and useful bonuses for the racials, bonus to zoom levels, bonus to passive sensors etc. Even a bonus to total ammunition carried is great as it effects the long-term power of a vehicle but not the "in the middle of a firefight" power.
- If you have to, make the racial bonuses affect non EHP/Damage modules, make them promote the "utility" modules. Give the Gallente/Caldari a bonus to Vehicle Repper/Shield Transfer modules (yes, add those back), make those Amarrians have a bonus to the vehicle sensor modules to find their missing run-away-slaves easier, give those ingenious minnies a bonus against rust, things like that.
*shrugs*
Imagine a new piece of infantry equipment like a rep tool but with massive bonus against vehicles and worthless against infantry, that like the cloaks have a prohibitively high cost but Pilot suits have a great fitting reduction to use them. Make it a Rusty red-paint splattered Forge Gun Reskin that shoots black nanites.
Imagine new vehicle "logi" modules like the old shield transfer modules, that a Caldari Pilot Suit would have bonuses on making them go from "good" to "great" with bonus to cooldowns, range and pulse value!
Really, pilot suits would be better if we introduced some vehicle utility modules, and then make the pilot suits be the "vehicle logies" as well as better vehicle mechanics due to great vehicle repper rates and slightly better zoom. This would also let logi vehicles be logi vehicles again.... I miss that role.
As a side note, you really should consider re-releasing logi vehicles with the huge resists but - the turret slots.
"You see those red dots over there?
Go and shoot them until you see a +50 on the screen" - Arkena Wyrnspire
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