As probably all of you know, each race in EVE Online has unique ships and weapons all with different stats and functionality. Amarr ships use lasers and tank armor, Minmatar ships use projectiles and tank shield or armor, Gallente ships use hybrid and tank armor, and Caldari use hybrids+launchers and tank shield.

Coming into Dust 514, I was expecting that each race would have their own unique set of dropsuits and vehicles with different stats and bonuses, complemented by a unique set of weaponry. Instead I found that thereGÇÖs basically four dropsuits each one belonging to one race (light GÇô Gallente, logistics GÇô Minmatar, medium GÇô Caldari, heavy GÇô Amarr). The vehicles and weapons are also spread out across all races.

Was I wrong to have the impression that race itemization would be similar to Eve Online? As it is now, it just doesnGÇÖt fit into the lore at all. An Amarrian would never wear a Minmatar dropsuit and utilize Minmatar vehicles and weaponry (and vice-versa). The same goes for Gallente and Caldari (besides weapons). WhatGÇÖs really the point of choosing a race at character creation if players will have to utilize equipment from every race?

In my mind, each race should have their own unique set of four dropsuits (for a total of 16), a unique set of vehicles, and a unique set of weaponry (lasers, missile, hybrid, projectile). Similar to EVE, each raceGÇÖs dropsuits and vehicles would have their own stats and bonuses to support their unique set of weaponry and armor or shield repair.

Is there a plan to flesh out the dropsuits, weaponry, and vehicles for each race? As it stands right now itGÇÖs extremely disappointing to a lore driven EVE fan such as myself.

I want a rust bucket tank! But we gotta be patient. This beta is mostly about game mechanics and bugs right now, we don't need the entire universe of stuff they have planned for us to figure out you can't sprint from crouch.

So, assuming they take influence from eve. Each races dropsuites will provide bonuses and be complimented by a specific kind of weapon group. So, Gallente ships usually get bonuses to Hybrid Weapons (Railguns and Blasters) or drone and Armor Tanking mods. Minmitar ships usually get a bonus to Projectile weapons and but most mini ships are comfortable being tanked with armor or shields (not that its worth tanking the piles of junk)

http://imgur.com/WRpBR

Thats a screen shot of a section of my gunnery skills in eve online. Ive taken the time to train up so I can use most anything I find in remote 0.0 markets so im never without a ship and something to put on it.

I can take my projectile weapons and put them on a gallente ship ignore the bonuses the ship gives to hybrids. Alot of people actually do this because projectiles dont consume capacitor so you can still shoot even if someone neuts you.

So the prophecy is an Amarrian battlecruiser. Amarrians like the lasers (because they like saying "pew pew"). So their ships frequently support bonuses for laser systems. The prophecy gets the following bonuses.

Battlecruiser Skill Bonus: 10% reduction in Medium Energy Weapon capacitor use and 5% bonus to all armor resistances per level

Its used to tank alot of damage, its a very good ship to use to bait a fight. But active tanking costs capacitor just like the lasers do. So people will frequntly put projectile turrets on it to retain some DPS while making their capacitor easier to handle.


So..given that DUST devs looked to eve for some inspiration on how to create a varied and interesting set of options for players to play with.

I imagine a full featured dust having skills and dropsuites from each race. And each races dropsuits having pairings with weapons and tanking systems.

All the vehicles are defined with turret types etc.

The Assault suits at the moment are all Caldari, The Heavy is Amarr and the Logistics is Minmitar. They all mirror racial attributes too. I think you'll see it more once we have more suit types and weapons.