Very good clarifications of the issues, thank you. :)

Of particular note: Yeah, the GalLogi is in a very weird place and throws a very tricky wrench into the discussion. :\
-It's main tool needs to reward better WP.
-But the GalLogi providing remote always-on omniscience for the entire team also seems to be pretty broken.
-But the GalLogi is also kinda meh at Scout Hunting. 4x Focused Scanners is actually a very difficult thing to use vs Scouts in practice, and you're too slow and too scannable yourself to hunt them down. In the best case GalLogi can be Scout Area Denial, but you lose everything else cool the suit can do (heal, supply team, scan properly for non-scout enemies).

Before any one asks: no the hotfix didnt went live today.

I like the assault nerf especially to the min's mobility. But what part of the amar assault is being nerfed? The mobility or the health? Because amar mobility is nothing special compared to min.

Dear players,

Shield Recharge
Currently if you are running for cover and small arms fire keeps "plinking" away your health, you can't regenerate shields.

We will be adding a shield interruption threshold, much like vehicles have, to all Dropsuits. Damage less than that number will not interrupt shield recharge. This should be a big buff for shield users, and something that has been commonly requested in the past
so I am happy to see it in-game.

The number is low to begin with, because this is a very dangerous variable, too high and shields become invincible, so we went with 6. We will monitor this change very carefully over the next weeks.


Mobility
After lengthy discussions about mobility (speed, strafe, sprint and stamina), here are updated numbers that will be deployed tomorrow.

Hotfix Warlords 1.1.3

We used the opportunity to fix authoring hierarchy so tweaks will be much easier in the future.

Speed Changes
Meant to align and rebalance based on a speed vs health curve, while reigning in assault speeds, MI in particular. We have made the changes much smaller than originally proposed.

Big buff: Commandos and Logistics,
Small buff: Basic-H
Small nerf: Assault and Basic-L. Plan is to add more HP to Basic-L later.

Strafe Changes
Overall reduction of strafe speeds, as calculated with a modifier to speed. Walk strafe reduced by 0.1, Sprint strafe by 0.1 and Run strafe by 0.2. Crouch Strafe aligned to 1 for all roles.

Stamina Changes
Aligned to make Amarr and Minmatar have the same "mobility", i.e travel the same distance in a similar timeframe. Average speed remains highest for MI and lowest for AM.

Stamina Recovery reduced for all MI roles as they were, due to a calculation error, double counting a bonus, making them outrun Amarr more than intended.

Buff: Commandos
Alignment benefits AM the most but not for all roles, CA/GA overall unchanged, MI overall reduced



Now that we have a much better framework (i.e. calculations that are simple and intuitive, we can tweak based on feedback.

Waiting for this to be released after Monday's DT.

... areas I would want to focus on, which are min and am scouts, light dropsuits ...

Backpedal refers to backward movement; Strafe refers to lateral movement; both strafe and backpedal speeds are derived from movement speed. There are different types of movement speeds:

Walk, Crouch, Run, Sprint, "Freewalk"

... and each type of movement can be assigned (by the Devs) different multipliers for strafe and backpedal.

At a strafe-crouch multiplier of 1 (100%), your strafe speed while crouched will be exactly the same as your forward movement speed. At a strafe-run multiplier of 0.9 (current), your strafe speed when running (not walking or sprinting) will be 90% of your forward movement speed. At a strafe-run multiplier of 0.7 (future), your strafe speed when running will be 70% of your forward movement speed.

As for the different types of movement:

Walk - Barely move your analog stick
Run - Max speed without sprinting ("movement speed" in game and at protofits)
Sprint - Consumes stamina ("sprint speed" in game and at protofits)
Crouch - Movement speed while squatting
Freewalk - Not 100% certain, but I think this is the speed used in warbarge and merc quarters

This was not deployed due to some technical issues we encountered last week. However, with those gone, we are going to go ahead and deploy this this Thursday 11:00 UTC. At least that's the new goal. :)

This was not deployed due to some technical issues we encountered last week. However, with those gone, we are going to go ahead and deploy this this Thursday 11:00 UTC. At least that's the new goal. :)

This was not deployed due to some technical issues we encountered last week. However, with those gone, we are going to go ahead and deploy this this Thursday 11:00 UTC. At least that's the new goal. :)

Did the hotfix deploy today? :/

Some people are saying it did, some say it didn't. Which is it?! And it looks like Frame edited his post to say it would deploy today. I'm confused...