Yes, we want to buy black eagle bpo, agree

I like it.

But then there'll be them jerks who think "me me me" and use up resources.

Meh, i love your idea. +1

Hmm well what you could do is have a personal pool that gets say 100 nanites every minute or something around that to prevent the "me me me!!!!" spam of suits and screw the team over but this is the harsh way of doing it.

Another Idea is the less nanites you use in a battle the more isk you get in a battle. if you use 1 suit for entire match then maybe you make million isk. I personally like this option more. Just need to make it apparent that this is a thing and show your average nanite use. This would help out new bros if all they used was mitia there Isk income would be better.

I like some of the ideas here, but some of this is starting to encourage afk behavior and discouraging people from running suits they've worked to unlock.

I would like to work toward a risk vs. reward mechanic for this. e.g. Running high meta suits acts as a modifier for payout.

( [average suit meta (during match)] x [objective defense WP x 0.8] ) x (personal nanites used/enemy nanites destroyed by you)

Doesn't planetside 2 do this with vehicles and equipment?

kinda but not the way i want to do it. they have static values for vehicles and equipment. Also infantry is free in ps2. in dust this will be different because cost will be based on meta LV (or something) and everything will have a cost. Sending out mitia squads to assassinate 1 target at a time maybe a viable strategy if said target is proto.

Because let me remind you that due to the sentinels and commandos naturally low meta level you could easily have multiple adv level (posibly a good four or five)sentinel/commandos and yet the other side is stuck with 16 guys in mlt/std.

Just a random idea that came to my head. There has been lots of discussion on how to Get rid of PROTO gear in Pubs. I personally dislike the idea of doing that.

So an idea came to my head that the team you are on has a nanite pool. This is a resource pool that allows you to spawn in suits, tanks , modules and so forth. Proto gear could take more nanite resources per spawn then a basic gear to help cover the balance of the game.

So in the end if your have a full team of proto vrs a team of non proto 1 kill on proto could count as 5 basic kills. Even if you losing badly KD wise your still gonna be able to win if you play it smart.


This could also help the entry level into PC battles. there won't be a constant need for proto gear as may just eat up your spawn resources and lose the battle. It may be better to bring in basic suits into PC unless you know you can protect it.

In the end players are gonna have to be smart about how they use there resources rather then bringing out the best gear.

Example numbers (devs would probably have better numbers for this)

PROTO LOGI fully fitted = 375 nanites

basic logi fully fitted = 50 nanites

A tank could take = 750 nanites

A Team could have 20,000 nanites.




Im sure this base system could expand more then what i have said and add a great meta to the game.

Raise meta accordingly. Hell my ads shouldn't have a meta level of like 25.

But he's using mlt as an example. Running proto taxes the nanites. Run it till you might not even be able to run suits anymore. Saying it might benefit the ones who use mlt first because in the end, they'll have the nanites to support higher meta fits than their opponents.

Adds another level of strategy... Especially if this is used in PC.

Meta level is just another pointless stat. Why would you make it so that it complety changes gameplay possibly for the worse?
Because let me remind you that due to the sentinels and commandos naturally low meta level you could easily have multiple adv level (posibly a good four or five)sentinel/commandos and yet the other side is stuck with 16 guys in mlt/std.

And this idea really won't fly to well. Milita squads vs one proto target.
A squad right now is six. A fireteam is 4. And depending on what proto suit and weapons combo the proto guy has,you could have a whole platoon go after him and he could probably still take out more than half of them. Heck even milita weaponry is deadlier to milita suits. I ran a academy match on my new alt a long time ago. I went nearly 60 kills in with only a milita assault rifle strapped to a caldari front line (ignore my hornblowing)