I think you misread what Banjo wrote, korrah. He's proposing to have DIFFERENT modules in the same fitting to give bonuses to the suit, like having armor plates and shield extenders give a extra bonus to overall HP.

I disagree with this. Reason being if you have this kinda system then it will lower the number of effective loadouts. If someone wants to specialize in lots of armor let them its part of being able to customize. Stacking penalties all ready enforce the basic idea of diversity to the right balance.

Also this would add a problem in balancing. How do you balance synergies vrs non-synergies(focused loadouts). TF2 use to try synergy but in the end was removed.

I would prefer that we just get more modules that have different effects to increase diversity and allow more player made sub roles to come out of it. In the end synergizing should be done by thinking about how you can use your modules in combat to make you better in a role. synergize your suit with play styles you like.

An excellent argument for the most part. Your balance point in particular rings true, although considering the context for it is in a game that I have often heard described as hopelessly unbalanced I'm not sure how applicible it is...
My main objection is to the notion that this will lower the ammount of viable builds and that it would disallow things like armor stacking. Straight stacking would still be viable because it will allow for the one thing they were building for to be done more effectively than if they were not-that is to say armor stacking will still yield more armor than synergizing, and it will give a reason not to by making, say the three slot investment it takes to toss ewar onto the suit a noticeably worthwhile investment, or the three slots to add the mobility stack family.

TF2 can never really balanced because most servers are modded and hosted by players. its more of a party game then being serious shooter but that being said the developers try to balance things as best as they can and that is why they removed it. otherwise yeah you are corrected because not as many people care about balance in that game as we do in dust.

Sorry if this was a little off topic.

I don't see a synergy bonus as taking away the effectiveness of super-stacked builds where you rely on 3 or 4 of the same type of module on your suit, like 4 armor plates, or 3 kincats or 3 damage mods. But it does give a slight bonus to builds that use a variety of modules, wouldnt have to be a big bonus, maybe 5% at max for each module that gains the synergy bonus.

A single synergy damage mod would be better than a single non-synergy damage mod, but two damage mods would still be more effective than one synergy damage mod, and synergy bonus wouldn't be able to apply to two damage mods anyways so there wouldn't be the need to worry about min-maxing some kind of balance of 2 modules of the same type getting a synergy bonus.

Well Here Is my argument. Lets say shield extender and a damage mod get a synergy. They synergy is like having another weak module on your suit for free. By building suits around synergies I think they will become way more powerful then stacking modules to specialize. When you look at it like that it seems very broken.

They'll need to even out the usefulness and count of high vs low slot mods before doing this.


Example
Armor has reactive, ferro and regular plates to use while shields have only extenders to add more of that style of tank.