It's also a good way to save your squad ISK on suits and fits, not as big a deal in some situations I suppose (playing with unknowns who're in militia gear for example) but if you play with someone who's going pure proto that revive comes with a hefty ISK savings attached.

Uhh, well there is the fact that it keeps you from losing a clone in ambush. Thats sorta a big deal.

I think the biggest thing for me as a medic is communication and better information. It would be substantially better if I knew how far away someone is when they're bleeding out and how much time they have left before they're dead. Being able to let that person know I'm coming to help them would work too. Even having my blip on the radar have a cross on it or something to represent the fact that I can heal and revive would be excellent.

I've had too many times when I run towards a body and get there too late, or I'm running in that direction and they give up hope.

Besides, if you have the repair tool alongside the nano injector, that's about 100 points on average, which is good enough for me.

As for making reviving easier, once the hotspot gets changed to the body and not the death location, I think things would be much simpler. I hate running around for like 10 seconds trying to find the location while I'm getting shot at.

Reviving seems kind of pointless in instant matches, as there is no benefit beyond 60wp for reviving your ally. Running out to save someone right now is a large risk to yourself, and the time it would take to revive someone and rep their armour back to full takes about as much time as it does for them to just mash O and respawn as soon as possible.

However, most people who are running expensive fits would like very much to be revived to save some isk on the fit. If people were able to put up a sort of "bounty" on their own suit, a strait isk reward that was shown along with the revive symbol on the mini-map. Logistics would have more incentive to play an obviously weaker and sometimes ineffective class, and more expensive fits would have a decent chance of being revived.

Obviously this might lead to some exploits that would have to be addressed, but by applying a 1 per life bounty limit most can be avoided. This also lets the bounty be calculated right into the cost of the fit to avoid any need for wallet checking during the fight to make sure you have enough isk to cover your revives.