P14GU3 wrote:Logis are the most expensive infantry in the game, isk and sp. It would be a bad move to make logis the primary noob suit. I takes around 20m sp to run a fully spec'd logi.
Edit: also, I've noticed that most people hate running a support-style role. Its not for everyone. Most people would rather leave than give up the run-n-gun.
Maybe I made myself unclear. I did not say make it the "Primary suit of Noobs." I suggested moving it up one level on the skill chart, to make it equal to medium, light and heavy. Make it cheaper to try out.
I do not suggest that "noobs" put every bit of proto gear they possibly can onto the suit and make it as expensive as possible.
I'm saying that some folks would benefit from knowing this category of suit exists, before they have to spend a month building up SP and wasting some of that on other things.
-maybe make militia versions of each logi with just 2 equipment slots. Let folks try them out on the super cheap.
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Some people are best as Scouts or Heavies or Assaults or Logis. So be it, some people suck at logi, some are terrible at heavy. I'm not saying you can't run them. Or that one is better than the others.
This game needs not just new players, but new players that stick around longer than a few massacres. Others slog threw massacre after massacre apparently.
Give them the ability to try out the different kinds of suits- sooner.
Maybe make some logi loadouts or light loadouts. I mean seriously how many newbies know they can get WP for using a rep tool on another player??
- Maybe on the equipment description page list the WP's that can be earned by skilling into the item.
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BPO's do contribute to the overall higher risk taking in the game and frankly a shift to mediums and assaults. People used to try and kill folks and not die. Now people try to kill folks and don't care so much about not dying. I've seen players run into a crowd of reds, drop a remote and blow themselves up along with several reds. I've seen some folks do the same kind of thing with plasma canons and grenades.
Some are mistakes and miscalculations, others, I'm not so sure.
People at the lower end of the ISK chain can't afford to do things like this and frankly don't think to do something like this until days or weeks or months into games like this.
Each night when I log in the number of players seems to be shrinking. Some of it is the time of year, some are just gone.
Thanks for reading this.