Forums eating my posts are why I have started copying my posts to the clipboard before I post them...that way if the forums eat the post, I can just paste it back in and try again. Also, the forums save a draft every few seconds, and you can usually get it to recover the draft as well. Better to copy to clipboard to be sure, though.

At the moment I will have to say no to the suits, there arent alot of suits out there and it be better off to have them 1 per level unlock for the moment until we start seeing factional symetry.

I will however have to agree on vehicles, all vehicles should be eve like where training its skill increases its effectiveness. at least an unlock at lvl 1 3 and 5 which would just be additional different roles but overall balanced against each other in the end. For example leve 1 unlock is a MBT which is just overall well rounded lvl 3 is an Invader heavier defenses weaker attack, lvl 5 murader.

BTW see that draft saved button? Click on it next time.

This all amounts to a problem where skills > skill, and FPS gamers will be put off horribly by that. If this game wants to retain a solid playerbase on console, it will need to have some kind of measure in place to effectively balance this kind of advantage.

I also like the OP because I really dislike the way it feels to put SP into a skill for zero gain. Going from level 1 in scout to level 3 is expensive with nothing to show for it. At least in EVE, my Incursus gained 10% damage and 20% fall-off

Please note that militia gear does not count as skilled equipment, so you would not get a performance boost to your militia suit, but your Type I would get better as your scout skill improved.

Yeah @Asno, in EVE we have fewer Tiers as oposed to Dust where every new Suit is a at a new, upper Tier, and benefits come mostly from skils wich are fairly spread out so the end result is that between the lower masses and the elite theres really not that much of a diference.

What this makes in practice is that in EVe progression is a lot more smooth than in Dust. In EVE theres a lot of small advancements, we sweat for that +1% compounded in 5 levels. In dust we have large leaps because we have so many big Dropsuit steps to climb in terms of advancement.

Maybe a paralell would be a race, where in EVe we have very similar cars running and they have small diferences or adantages between them, and in Dust we have a popular car racing against a ferrari.

All these small advantages should be compunded within the team to yield a strong formup and a victory, and not having big advantages to empower too much the individual and not carrying much for the team work.

One magic aspect of EVe is that everyone has its place, even the noobs. The way Dust is heading, we will probably have a very elitist culture where you will only be able to join a Corp if you have already proto equipment, because otherwise you wont be competitive.

However, that said, we (and CCP) should consider how prevalent BPOs should be. Keeping in mind that any corporation worth its salt will be supplying its Dusters with gear, Prototype BPOs should be rare or nonexistent. THAT would demolish the game balance faster than an arrow to the knee.

As I have stated in other threads, I am not real happy with the suits and the suit skills at present. I feel very strongly that CCP needs to make the suits more like the ships and ship skills in EVE. This would solve the current massive imbalances between the basic suits and protosuits.