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Good post, you have some valid points although I'm not sure about the specific healing logi suit. The beauty of this game is that you can basically do this yourself, i.e. make two or more seperate logi suit fittings, each with it's own PG/CPU boosters if necessary, one dedicated to healing/repairing and one for uplink/nanohive deployement and just switch back and forth as the game goes along. You can have a squad focusing on one of the objectives, 2 logi's with proto uplinks can set up a perimeter of 4 active uplinks, combined with the objective spawn, that's 5 spawnpoints on one objective, +15 for each teamspawn adds up in the long run, spawncamp that suckers! Add to that some armor repairing nanohives and you've got something to work with. Then you can switch to your healing/repairing suit and support your squadmates, preferably a heavy, they make for great cover .

So,
Squadhealth window; absolutely
Repair indicator; absolutely
Healing suit; not sure if necessary but worth looking into

I agree with the OP on most points.

Except a suit with healing bonuses. Right now You can repair someone and they can still die. Unless the bonus was extremely small (Why even have it then?) This could change to where people might not be able to kill someone being actively repped. That would make these tools much stronger than they should be.

I think the logistics suit definately needs a sidearm. Lack of a sidearm is a massive penalty to the suit. Having the best slot layout is offset by being slower than the other nonheavy suits, but not having a sidearm on top of that lack of mobility, is just kicking the logistics user when they are down.

In their current implementation logistics users get more downsides than upsides. You're almost better off just using a prototype assault suit and equipping a nanohive and a repair tool. The speed is fine but there is no question they need a sidearm. Except for the type-II scout suit there is no other suit that does not have a sidearm. Not even a heavy suit which is able to equip a forge gun (in the hands of a skilled user able to instantly kill any infantry) suffers from this penalty of no sidearm.

I can see where you're coming from but once you start splitting logi suits, someone could raise the argument that the same needs to be done for the other suits for one reason or another. I've only been in the beta for about a month and I don't have any EVE experience as you seem to have, so I'm just going off the top of my head here. I'm just thinking that dropsuit limitations are an intricate part of this game and it's up to the individual player to solve these problems through the use of certain skills and modules.



I'm probably missing something here, but couldn't you just run an assault suit with healing/repair modules or aren't there enough equipment slots available? If so, couldn't you use shield/armor repairers/extenders and biotics(speed) on the logi suit to balance things out with the assault suit?

Anyway, even if what I'm saying doesn't make much sense, I have a feeling that you'll always have to compromise one way or another. I also read in a thread somewhere a dev stating that logi suits would be "buffed" or at least improved in the august build to make them more valuable and worthwhile, that included slightly increased speed and armor.

There will be the splitting of suit types in an Advcanced Dropsuit Branch. I'm sure of that.
Logistics will get an ADV Logistics Suit that has either Hacking or Healing boni . Maybe even Salvage sooner or later ;)
Assault will have the approach on spray reduction and propably shooting speed.
Heavy looks like it would get a resistance bonus or plain heavy damage bonus I'd say.
And Scouts will be looking for a speed suit or a cloak suit.

Scouts and people with Dropsuit Command up to V are really annoying to keep track of health-wise - their markers, AND their health indicators vanish at a MUCH closer range. Would be nice if you could see health of any friendlies in line of sight when you hold L1 with the Repair Tool out. Permanently showing that would be intrusive, but if you could bring it up at will, that would help a lot (and a lot more than a squad-only health display, because that doesn't give you directions)

I must be weird for using my SMG as a primary weapon. Granted it's usually pretty worthless against anything above standard level suits (and I can't track to save my life). But that gives me just enough spare grid to run advanced rep tools and slightly better tank.

That being said I agree with pretty much everything you've said so far. A slight bonus to rep-speed would be nice, and I'd mail $5 to whatever dev implements a better indicator for when the repper is actually repping.