I wonder how useful the unspecialized basic suits will be compared to the specialized ones like the assault.

EDIT: I know the logi has a special yellow coloring, does the basic, or any specialized role have any distinctive coloring as well?

I really don't like this, really wish the logi and assault had separate suit designs. more variety is good.

I really don't like this, really wish the logi and assault had separate suit designs. more variety is good.

I really don't like this, really wish the logi and assault had separate suit designs. more variety is good.

while i agree, we are stil getting a lot of variety in roles and colours.

That being said, once the important stuff is done a while down the line, there is no reason that CCP wont create models for each specialisation.

more variety is good.

From how I heard in in the keynote, I thought it was you level up the Dropsuit skill until you get access to the Light, Medium, and Heavy dropsuit skills. You then level up the Light, Medium, or Heavy dropsuit skill until you reach the specialization suit you want.

So if you wanted an Amarr Logistics suit it would be,
Dropsuit Lv X ---> Medium Frame Lv Y ---> Amarr Logistics
If at that point you decided you wanted to switch to Gallente Assault, you'd only have to level up the Gallente Assault skill since the Dropsuit and Medium Frame skills overlap.

Are all logi's going to look like human bee's? If so it makes stabbing people with the nanite injector oddly amusing to me.

Baby steps.

I'm just curious when we'll have all racial variants for suits. I'm a little confused on that since they didn't seem to have actual models for most of the new suits. Devblogs need to happen, but I understand the hold up.

Patience

Just checked the Sisi Magic Crystal Ball and to be clear there are racial frame skills:

Dropsuit --> Racial Medium Frame --> Racial Logistics

Ah, thank you. Not sure how I like this, but I'll deal with it.

Also sounds like it's going to take quite a bit more than 2.4 million SP to get prototypes.

No problem.

I'm hoping the Tech 2 suits aren't 8x skills and the total SP to prototype speciality suit is about the same. The 8x skill seems extremely high for a suit especially when compared to the giant spaceships our pilot brothers and sisters fly.

thats just it. im fine waiting, do it after the heavy suits for all I care. Just dont combine logis and assaults, just seems wrong. was really looking forward to seeing caldari, amarr and gallente logis, and minmatar and amarr assault. CCPs art team is one of their strong points.

logis look cool because they have all kinds of belts and equipment. was really anxious to see how the other races version of it.

Everyone should figure that the suit skill tree may be very similar in structure and attenuation as that of the pilot's skill tree for the ships in EVE. A person skills up the command skill first which will unlock the different size suits (depending on the skill level of dropsuit command) then the size specific skilling (light, medium, heavy) and then the specialization (assault, scout, logi, sentinel).

The first choice comes in size, then race, then role specialization.

At least that is what I gathered from the keynote.

As for the different colors for the suits, it seemed from the keynote that the different roles along with the different tech level of the dropsuit will designate the color scheme of the suit one gets. Again this is conjecture from the what CCP has given us.

I ultimately agree, because as you say, variety is good, but in the immediate future I think it's more important to push out a suit model for each frame size for each race. As time goes on they can stream in variants.

I just want to know when exactly we're getting full racial representation. Is it on the 6th, the 14th, or some later date?

So, you will be able to get Logi suits only after L5 in medium frame suits?

I wonder how useful the unspecialized basic suits will be compared to the specialized ones like the assault.

EDIT: I know the logi has a special yellow coloring, does the basic, or any specialized role have any distinctive coloring as well?

theres still comando and pilot suits to come.

I'm guessing the art department is the bottleneck. We don't even have all the basic frame sizes yet.