The only problem I see in the long run is that people will then be saying flares are OP and need to be nerfed.

Snipers. Snipers just friggun love to get on top of things. Right now, people are spawning huge ships to climb to the higher portions of the map. If climbing to the ceiling is going to be supported in release, I'd recommend a small, cheap, scout ship for this express purpose, a flying motorcycle.

Jetpacks wouldn't be a problem if they were slow. Speed gives an advantage of invulnerability; if you're fast enough, no one can hit you. If jetpacks are made slow, people won't be able to run from a battle successfully (because its slow) by flying away, and thus it won't be cheap.
Another way to balance jetpacks would be high CPU/PG requirements.
Would be very useful for logistic dropsuits, they have the equipment slots to use it AND support equipment. They can fly past defenses and plant drop uplinks, or effectively get to downed enemies to revive them. There are genuine team applications for jetpacks. And there are ways to prevent abuse.
Importantly, jetpacks are FUN (which is the goal of games in general).

I wasn't aware Halo was the only shooter with jetpacks, nor that Halo was the first ever to have it. I don't see anyone whining and saying "deployable spawn points make the game too much like Killzone 2 or Battlefied 3". "Halo did it" is NOT a valid counterargument.

Wasn't really an argument mate. I was joking around with Ludwig. There really IS NO argument with the suggestion of Jet Packs other than there are more important features to focus on.

If a Logi was given a Jet Pack option with a HUGE cpu cost that's alright by me.

Maybe CCP can add some different music like Beethovan mixed with some dubstep, I always love me some Beethovan. *jokes*

I heard someone said that there would be custom soundtracks, but I have no idea if this is true or not.
If it isn't, I am requesting it now. I think custom soundtracks would be really awesome. I want to hear some NIN while playing.

Jet packs anyone?

Also, while in a vehicle in a non-driving or non-turret slot, you should be able to use your guns. Whenever I get into a dropship and the turrets and pilot slot are occupied, I feel useless and immediately bail out. They should at least let you use your gun, because that's what would happen in real life.

aww yeah.

edit, and by NIN I hope you mean Nine Inch Nails.

1) I would like strafing speed to be reduced. As it is now, the combat is very Halo-ish. "Oh an enemy....left....right....left....right...etc. Being forced into a slow "walk" speed while firing would be nice.

2) The bunny hopping is very annoying. Jumping should be tied into stamina, possibly with a charge that allows greater heights to be reached. Jumping stays usefull, but isn't something that happens every 10 seconds.

Bascially I would like the combat to be tactical, brutal, and done intelligently. As opposed to people running and jumping in circles around each other.

3) We should be able go from sprinting to shooting (pulling trigger stops the sprinting, with a small delay for bringing the gun up), and crouch to sprint practically instanly.

were Mercs not Soldiers we get money not medals :)

Ok, and I must say this is a great idea for a thread.
EDIT: might as well add another idea to this thread.

-More exotic scifi weapons/equipment like the forge gun, not just scifi versions of regular weapons (like SMG, assault rifle). It would be nice to have something like a blue plasma flame thrower that does close range burning damage. Perhaps gravity gun made from scavenged Yan Jung (from EVE lore) technology. Perhaps bio-mechanical symbiotic dropsuits that regenerates, can be made from Takmahl technology (EVE lore). Mass Effect 3 does a great job in this department, for example, they have a shotgun that's like a powerful lightning flame thrower, but has to reload after each shot. They don't have to be crazy powerful in relation to the defense dropsuits offer, they just have to be more scifi, and interesting compared to the generic FPS weaponry.

More specific:

I want to say that I want new weapons that are not just a novelty, but are as genuinely useful as regular weapons like assault rifles and SMGs.
Going to throw around some ideas.

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Amarr (lasers)
-A mid to long range laser weapon firing multiple beams with low but continuous damage. Its advatange is that it doesn't fire one beam, but instead fires four beams lined up on a wide horizontal plane allowing for a wide field of damage to hit multiple targets at once. It could be similar to the line gun in the Dead Space series.
-Please make the laser weapon that isn't currently in the beta as versatile as the assault rifle.

Caldari (missiles, railguns)
-Antipersonnel stasis webifier: Reduces the maximum speed of an enemy merc by employing micro energy streams which effectively entangle the target temporarily, thereby slowing it down. Would be actvated by aiming one's hand towards an enemy.

Gallente (drones, plasma blasters)
-Plasma burner that does short/mid range continuous burning damage. It fires continuously for about 2 seconds before needing to reload.
-A long range rifle that fires explosive drone disks that the shooter must remote control to drive them to the target. Has great damage, and great range, but remote controlling the disk into an enemy puts the user at risk since he's no longer observing his own surroundings because the shooter is viewing in the camera perspective of the disk.
-A group of spherical flying drones that orbit the player and generate a slight shield. When the player designates a target by aiming a non-lethal laser at an enemy, the drones move towards and fly around the enemy to do some light contnuous damage, and distraction.
-A lightning weapon that functions in short and mid range like an SMG, but does lower damage as a tradeoff. The main advantage of it would be that the lightning will have a chaining effect, and would damage multiple nearby enemies all at once (maybe Amarr since its also an energy weapon, but lightning is a form of plasma).

Minmatar (projectiles: autocannons, and artillery)
-Artillery spear rifle: A mid range rifle with very slow (1 shot fired every 2 seconds) heavy explosive short spear rounds, it would have high damage. Should be more powerful than a breach assault rifle, but not as powerful as a mass driver. but only a 10 round magazine size.

Yan Jung (maybe made from reverse engineering scavenged technology from ruins)
-A gravity gun that fires charged shots, and each shot will be a energy sphere that will pull in anyone that it hits directly (which traps them until the sphere disappears in 10 seconds), and slows the the movement of anyone moving away from it by pulling on them. It would be like the forge gun, but have the effect of trapping or slowing down enemy players. This weapon would be nonlethal.
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These are just examples of possible ways to go about adding more interesting weapons.

NO to slow walk, this would Negate the advantage of being a scout.

Jumping IS tied to stamina

Agree

1) I would like strafing speed to be reduced. As it is now, the combat is very Halo-ish. "Oh an enemy....left....right....left....right...etc. Being forced into a slow "walk" speed while firing would be nice.

2) The bunny hopping is very annoying. Jumping should be tied into stamina, possibly with a charge that allows greater heights to be reached. Jumping stays usefull, but isn't something that happens every 10 seconds.

Bascially I would like the combat to be tactical, brutal, and done intelligently. As opposed to people running and jumping in circles around each other.

3) We should be able go from sprinting to shooting (pulling trigger stops the sprinting, with a small delay for bringing the gun up), and crouch to sprint practically instanly.

Not bad, maybe in the future, but that would definately be awesome. Lets get more ideas people.

Yea but the developer has to code it in. Most ps3 games do not support custom soundtracks. Very few do, and most of them are sports games like MLB, and GT5.