I think it's been said: Reasonable people agree with this.

As a secondary topic on the user experience side of this:
I feel like 'powercores' are not an intuitive entity to interact with. Ask 10 people that don't know the forums what a powercore is - I don't think they'll guess right.
Are you opposed to baking the powercores into the suits as a prefit item? That way this change becomes transparent to the players. Buy an advanced Amarr Assault suit, receive a medium suit called "Amarr Assault A/1" that has an advanced medium powercore prefit. This prefit powerfore can be hidden or visible. I think I prefer hidden for the user experience advantage - but if anyone finds a problem with that I wouldn't mind. I'm assuming here that all cool BPOs will become skin modules in the future, so you'll have a standard suit BPO to save ISK and a cool skin to put on your pro and advanced suits. That means hidden powercores cause no losses in vet-experience, but new players have one less concept to learn during the first two weeks.

Also, will you do the same to vehicles? I assume they have the same memory-consumption problem. Next up, tier- and skin-modules for weapons?

My main worry was that it could be exploited, not necessarily in terms of "same as proto", but maybe comparably good as ADV for the price of STD.

First I like to say that the best way to address the issue of players not knowing what is a CORE module is by implementing an effective tutorial system into the UI so newbros can understand them and veterans won't be jarred by it.

Secondly, I do not think the concept of the CORE module would ever work properly with vehicles mainly because vehicles are an entirely different beast altogether especially when you compare LAVs to HAVs to Dropships and then you have to account for AV players as well. Vehicles are not like suits. Suits don't go around bumping into other suits with REs strapped to their chests, they don't fly around (except as a result of an RE detonation), and they don't carry other suits on their shoulders.

People often use ISK cost as some sort of basis for balancing vehicles to AV but that is generally a mistake because vehicle-vs-AV balance was never meant to work like that. If a full squad of MLT AV players gang up on a PRO HAV and succeed with destroying it, then that is balanced so long as A) the PRO HAV is operated by a stupid driver and B) the MLT AV squad knows what they are doing because they are veterans.

But let's turn that around. Let's say that the MLT AV squad is full of incompetent blueberries while the PRO HAV is driven by a skilled veteran who knows what he is doing. the MLT squad gets slaughtered by the PRO player rides into the sunset laughing with 6 kills added to his KDR. Balanced.

Let's change it up some more. Let's say the AV squad is running with PRO gear this time and encounter a MLT HAV. If the PRO AV squad knows what they are doing while the MLT HAV driver is stupid, the squad gets a nice squishy kill. Balanced.

Turn the tables now. Let's say it's the MLT HAV driver who is the veteran and the PRO AV squad is full of idiots. He somehow gets out alive driving into the sunset once again with 2-3 kills added to his KDR while the PRO AV squad is left behind rekt having a bad day because of him. Balanced.

As you can see, player skill has to play a role in this as well.

EDIT: One more change...

Let's say both the AV squad and the HAV driver are matched in tier. PRO-vs-PRO. It's now down to who make a fatal mistake first.

This is CCP Z's fanfest proposal for 'you are your dropsuit' with the skill progression removed.

Kind of off topic but i can't say I agree with anything you wrote. Balance is not a squad of AV vs one tanker. Militia AV should be equivalent to militia guns. Harder to kill byt feasible on a one vs one scenerio. The instant a tank is worth two infantry is the instant balance gets tossed out the window.

pay attention to what he said. Maken compared extremes On opposite end of the spectrum.

He never said at any point that an HAV should inherently require a squad to kill. He used a variable example of a squad versus a tank comparing idiots in avaction at extremes of gear disparity.

He did not address a competent AV versus a competent tanker in a 1v1 situation with comparable gear at all.

EDIT: One more change...

Let's say both the AV squad and the HAV driver are matched in tier. PRO-vs-PRO. It's now down to who make a fatal mistake first.

It was pretty clear from his post he was implying multiple AV users to 1 vehicle. This can easily be demonstrated by his last update straight up saying a full AV squad vs a single HAV driver comes down to fatal mistake when equally skilled.

One player should always equal another player regardless of what weapon they're using or what suit they're in or what platform they're loaded into.

From there you add the variations of skill of the players, gear quality, and gear variety.

When you're done the value of one player should still be the value of any other player.

Absolutely false.

2 players working together should be better than 3 or more players doing their own thing. Teamwork should make players greater than the sum of their parts.

Case in point, a heavy with a logi supporting can stifle an uncoordinated 6-man push given the right positioning. This is a good thing.

It was pretty clear from his post he was implying multiple AV users to 1 vehicle. This can easily be demonstrated by his last update straight up saying a full AV squad vs a single HAV driver comes down to fatal mistake when equally skilled.

My main worry was that it could be exploited, not necessarily in terms of "same as proto", but maybe comparably good as ADV for the price of STD.

Keep it going, I can always increase the ISK cost of them to fight stacking.

My main worry was that it could be exploited, not necessarily in terms of "same as proto", but maybe comparably good as ADV for the price of STD.

Keep it going, I can always increase the ISK cost of them to fight stacking.

Wouldnt all of the suits proportionally go up in capapbility?

Std becaomes nearly as good as current ADV, and ADV beomces nearly as good as current Proto, and full proto (given disparity between it and the regular suits) stays the same.

Sure you can plug in a couple CPU mods, but your giving up tank, regen, speed that a suit of a higher tier can comfortably fit.

My main worry was that it could be exploited, not necessarily in terms of "same as proto", but maybe comparably good as ADV for the price of STD.

Keep it going, I can always increase the ISK cost of them to fight stacking.

Ratatti you should keep in mind that to push a STD suit to ADV it would require 1 complex PG module and 1 complex PG module. Both modules and the STD suit combined costs more then going stright to the market and buying a ADV suit. You can do that with a Apex suit right now but then you pay more ISK for fitting modules then for the ADV suit itself.

Wouldnt all of the suits proportionally go up in capapbility?

Std becaomes nearly as good as current ADV, and ADV beomces nearly as good as current Proto, and full proto (given disparity between it and the regular suits) stays the same.

Sure you can plug in a couple CPU mods, but your giving up tank, regen, speed that a suit of a higher tier can comfortably fit.

Something that just occurred to me. Recently our starter suits were updated and the Logistics starter was given a second equipment slot so that people could run as an actual support and see what it was like. Is the Logi starter fit going to be given the same slots as a proto Logi, basically giving everyone a free (non-racial bonus) Logistics suit, or is it going to be removed or what?

GåÆ have the PowerCore at the same time block (like a jig) a suit's existing slots selectively from being fittable...

I do not understand the cost progression.
3k, 9k, 81k?

Why so non-linear?

I like this

This way it would be similar to how it is right now, right?

Rattati, I am so excited you seem to have this working and even looking better than I thought by not having a ton of power cores as well. Very exciting time in Dust. Some questions

1) Are we actually sticking with the power core name?
2) Can power cores affect other base stats besides CPU/PG?
3) Could a power core be unlocked from the same skill as another but apply a different bonus? This meaning the class racial bonus applies to the core rather than the suit and can thus be swapped with a variant type with a different skill bonus? One step at a time I know, just having fun thinking long term.
4) Officer power cores?

1) no idea
2) they can, but not slots
3) not sure, not even sure I understand the question :)
4) yes, but not critical

[quote=CCP Rattati]1) no idea
2) they can, but not slots
Power cores can't affect the slots, guys.