As a pilot, I honestly think this would typically be a waste for a Logi to carry. Vehicles have finite ammo, but very large reserves. While not always convenient to go to a supply depot for more ammo, the frequency in which I would benefit from a Logi resupplying me with ammo would be too infrequent for it to merit to use of one of their equipment slots.

As a pilot, I honestly think this would typically be a waste for a Logi to carry. Vehicles have finite ammo, but very large reserves. While not always convenient to go to a supply depot for more ammo, the frequency in which I would benefit from a Logi resupplying me with ammo would be too infrequent for it to merit to use of one of their equipment slots.

Damping Equipment Field Generator
Equipment only Logi able to Carry (CPU/PG Bonus like scouts cloak)
When activated Damping field is produced that Increases damping % within so many meters of Logi.
Hide a Heavy anyone?

I've been interested by attaching the ability to hack to use of a codebreaker. Thus you cold require either a codebreaker of X meta level to hack gear of Y meta level. Or a X number of codebreakers to hack gear of Y meta level.
In either case the baseline function of the codebreaker(s) remains.

Provides some slot competition, gives added incentive to run proto hives and links (harder to hack) etc.
It creates interplay rather than a yes/no system, and this may be computer coding (yep even on a console it's still that )
we're talking about here but avoiding binary outcomes is still a good idea in my view.

How should Faction(Ammar,Cal,Gal) Rep Tools and their Bonus be adjusted because of the Race?

1.Min has a bigger longer stream.
2.Cal could have?
3.Gal could have?
4.Ammar could have?

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Cal How do you make a Faction Rep Tool for a Shield based Race?
1.It has to have a Buff for Cal Dropsuits without making other Race Op.
2.Bonus on the suits to using Cal Faction Rep Tools.
3.Option 2 Damage resist added to Shield 3%,6%,9%,12,15%(Bonus to using with Cal Suit programmed to Cal Suit)
4.Option 3 added to Option 2 with slight armor rep in opposite amounts 30 hp, 20 hp,15 hp,5 hp, 1 hp (Everyone else and Cal)
so as not to make the Cal Rep Tool OP.

Gal How to you make a Faction Rep Tool for a Armor based Race?
Drone based Reps in space.
What if the Gal Rep tool acted as a armor Rep Modifier like a module armor repair with a slight armor repair.
1. 3%,6%,9%,12,15% added to suit passive Rep while rep is on target (Bonus to using with suit Gal)
2.option added 30 hp, 20 hp,15 hp,5 hp, 1 hp so as to not make tool op.(Everyone else and Gal)

Ammar How do you make a faction Rep Tool for Armor and Shield Race?
1.It has to have a Buff for Ammar Dropsuits without making other Race Op.
2.Option 2 Damage resist added to Armor 1%,3%,6%,9,12%(Bonus to using with Ammar Suit programmed to Ammar Drop Suit)
3.option added 30 hp, 20 hp,15 hp,5 hp, 1 hp so as to not make tool op.(Everyone else and Ammar)

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Cal How do you make a Faction Rep Tool for a Shield based Race?
1.It has to have a Buff for Cal Dropsuits without making other Race Op.
2.Bonus on the suits to using Cal Faction Rep Tools.
3.Option 2 Damage resist added to Shield 3%,6%,9%,12,15%(Bonus to using with Cal Suit programmed to Cal Suit)
4.Option 3 added to Option 2 with slight armor rep in opposite amounts 30 hp, 20 hp,15 hp,5 hp, 1 hp (Everyone else and Cal)
so as not to make the Cal Rep Tool OP.

Gal How to you make a Faction Rep Tool for a Armor based Race?
Drone based Reps in space.
What if the Gal Rep tool acted as a armor Rep Modifier like a module armor repair with a slight armor repair.
1. 3%,6%,9%,12,15% added to suit passive Rep while rep is on target (Bonus to using with suit Gal)
2.option added 30 hp, 20 hp,15 hp,5 hp, 1 hp so as to not make tool op.(Everyone else and Gal)

Ammar How do you make a faction Rep Tool for Armor and Shield Race?
1.It has to have a Buff for Ammar Dropsuits without making other Race Op.
2.Option 2 Damage resist added to Armor 1%,3%,6%,9,12%(Bonus to using with Ammar Suit programmed to Ammar Drop Suit)
3.option added 30 hp, 20 hp,15 hp,5 hp, 1 hp so as to not make tool op.(Everyone else and Ammar)

And should only the Logi of the Race of the Faction Rep Tool only get the Buff for using the Faction Rep Tool.
Everyone else gets the general Rep amounts

I would not mind being forced to use a Nanite injector, but some might, so I'm thinking no on that. Instead perhaps give the Cal logi a large increase to bandwidth, to make them more a deployables logi than others.

Maybe do the same for the amaars, take away the sidearm, and replace it with the 3rd/4th equipment slot, with a large increase in bandwidth.

Shield transporter is a taboo, considering how insane (it was balanced against OP AV of the time) spider tanking was, i don't agree with it.

I've never agreed with bonus on equipments, survavibility bonus were better, now that assault are in a good position, we should get the same slot progression and a new bonus set.
Peace for am and cal logi, they should be normalized.

It would be cool if with both lvl.5 of assault and logi you could unlock a combat logi, but that goes under the category of post level 5 content.

Shared Scans and Damping in Dust514
Please correct me if I am wrong on any of this ,I want to know exactly what is going on.
1.Passive scan suits let the whole squad/Team see all enemies in scan range of Passive scan suit?
2.Direct sight used to be shared with squad/team ,is it still shared?
3.Active scan equipment scans are shared by whole team.

1.So if the above is true that one passive scan suit can see for the team why can't one dampend suit damp for the whole team?
Balanced gameplay?(My thoughts passive scan should be for that player only)
2.Should direct sight be shared by team/squad by tagging enemy like Battlefield?(Personally don't like shared sight)
3.If active scan is shared by the team ,I think that is OP. (Personally Shared by squad at the most is my thought)

Just because we're not getting new equipment in the foreseeable future doesn't mean that the triage ward community is 'useless' or not worth the effort. Logi talks (and maybe some commando talks) should be coming up soon and experienced, well-reasoned, knowledgeable feedback is important.

Just wanted to share the Rattati conversation we had on our 1yr anniversary episode on Biomassed.

Pretty fun chat and we did dive into Logi play with Rattati...some cool insights. I'm fairly optimistic after the discussion that the Logi set will be in noticeably better shape. The updates should be coming to a Hotfix in the near future.

How many of you use proxy mines?

I have one dedicated fit with adv and pro proxy and an hive (the hive will go when they will mutiply pro).
I like setting traps, but it's not much rewarding for various reasons:
1) It takes time to drop all those proxy
2) Effective only in narrow pathways
3) Damage of a single proxy is kinda meh

My suggestion to solve point 1 is to let us drop proxy at group of 2-3 at 2 or 3 meters one from the other.
To solve point 2 and 3 it would be cool if explosion could influence each other like in FW.

In this way proxy would be an effective way to block paths.

Devtag with only 8 pages?

Scrubs.

By rewarding just the winners however, what incentive does that give for people obviously on the losing end to continue making sacrifices and pulling out something other than BPOs and low level gear?

I like the intentions of it, but I, for example, already use low level gear and BPOs. I think my highest meta of my suits is 27, with 20 to 24 being the bulk. And I pretty much break even in terms of ISK, despite not making signficant ISK sacrifices.

This might give me incentive to switch to proto if my team is up by a wide enough margin, but the opposite will happen if I am on the other side.

And my suits don't even cost as much as a Logi's, which I recognize is the biggest ISK investment aside from proto vehicles.

I hope there is something I am missing, which often happens, and it all works out. I am just concerned the incentives are such that the sum of the behaviors it rewards are going to be more negative for game play as a whole.

The changes in question wouldn't give an afk guy anything be he on the winning or losing side, they are % values of what he loses or kills so if he's afk they'd both be a % of 0.

X and Y are just a bonus, lots of WP would pay anyway.
Btw, it's hard for a machine to tell if a player use slaying roles or support roles, if he's doing good or not.
Both the team should have a bonus for X and Y, higher for winning team and lower for losing team.

Well... what is the specific issue we are trying to resolve?

Winning:
a) If it is making winning teams more profitable, simply increase the winning team's total purse (ISK or WP or SP).
b) If it is making individual achievers more profitable, simply increase the ratio of reward for the better performers (on both winning and losing teams).

Losing:
c) If we are trying to mitigate losses by individual players on the winning side, apply a bonus to their winnings based on gear lost. This encourages the use of better gear.
d) If we are trying to mitigate losses by individual players on the losing side, apply a bonus to their (loser's purse) winnings based on gear lost. This encourages the continued use of better gear in the face of defeat (prolonging the quality of the match).

We already have (a) and (b), although the win/loss reward ratio could always be adjusted if required.

What we do not yet have is (c) or (d). What was suggested is that (c) should be greater than (d). I think that unnecessarily compounds things. If we want to promote the general use of better gear - whether winning or losing - then it would be better if individual gear mitigation was equal for all players (and might be easier to code that way). The winning team is already getting rewarded for their win.

(A case could also be make for not providing (c), because they are already getting rewards, and only adding (d), to encourage better gear use on the losing side and extending the quality of the match.)