DUST Search - [PROPOSAL] Tasked Equipment

Meeko Fent wrote:

Alaika Arbosa wrote:

With all of the talk about balancing the Logi Suits, I had a thought. Why not task each piece of equipment and only allow certain dropsuits to equip them?

Assault: Nanite Injectors.
Heavy: None.
Logistics: No restrictions, blanket reduction in fitting requirements for all equipment.
Scouts: Active Scanners, Drop Uplinks, Proximity Explosives, Remote Explosives

This way, Logis become required for certain items such as Repair Tools and Nanohives. If Assaults are restricted to Nanite Injectors, they can keep people on the front line on their feet, though will require a Logi's assistance to keep them operating at full potential.

Give the Assaults a slight buff to EHP and tweak their racial bonuses to make them more Assaulty (built in damage mods would be a suggestion I would put forward) while tweaking the racial bonuses to Logi to give them more of a "support" role (as suggested above, a blanket reduction to equipment fitting requirements or focus each race towards particular equipment)

This Would Kill the thing that Probably Brought A lot of People to DUST.

No Restrictions.

You Could be a Heavy Sniper, or a Scout AV. Its Freeform play Designed Class Making.

This Would Basically Put a Big Kitten Hole In that Plan.

"Well, I Want To Be Survivable, But I also want to Demolish HAVs and Installations. The Thing is, I cant use the Remote Bomb AND Be Survivable!"


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Alaika Arbosa Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Interstellar Murder of Crows 166	Posted - 2013.05.13 19:07:00 - [1] - Quote With all of the talk about balancing the Logi Suits, I had a thought. Why not task each piece of equipment and only allow certain dropsuits to equip them? Assault: Nanite Injectors. Heavy: None. Logistics: No restrictions, blanket reduction in fitting requirements for all equipment. Scouts: Active Scanners, Drop Uplinks, Proximity Explosives, Remote Explosives This way, Logis become required for certain items such as Repair Tools and Nanohives. If Assaults are restricted to Nanite Injectors, they can keep people on the front line on their feet, though will require a Logi's assistance to keep them operating at full potential. Give the Assaults a slight buff to EHP and tweak their racial bonuses to make them more Assaulty (built in damage mods would be a suggestion I would put forward) while tweaking the racial bonuses to Logi to give them more of a "support" role (as suggested above, a blanket reduction to equipment fitting requirements or focus each race towards particular equipment)
Alaika Arbosa Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Interstellar Murder of Crows 387	Posted - 2013.06.21 16:45:00 - [2] - Quote I still think this is a good idea. It would help customization within roles as well.
Alaika Arbosa Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Interstellar Murder of Crows 388	Posted - 2013.06.21 17:08:00 - [3] - Quote IDK, I don't think this idea is the end-all, be-all of fixing the problem. I just think it would be a step in the right direction if applied with other fixes. Customization is a good thing, though I feel that it is secondary to establishing roles and should be done within them. People go on and on about how Dust is all about customization, then they ***** when people take that customization and turn a logi suit into an uber-assault suit. I think that ideas like this, where customization is allowed, though roles receive more priority are the way to fix the problems.
Alaika Arbosa Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Interstellar Murder of Crows 388	Posted - 2013.06.21 19:42:00 - [4] - Quote Meeko Fent wrote: Alaika Arbosa wrote: With all of the talk about balancing the Logi Suits, I had a thought. Why not task each piece of equipment and only allow certain dropsuits to equip them? Assault: Nanite Injectors. Heavy: None. Logistics: No restrictions, blanket reduction in fitting requirements for all equipment. Scouts: Active Scanners, Drop Uplinks, Proximity Explosives, Remote Explosives This way, Logis become required for certain items such as Repair Tools and Nanohives. If Assaults are restricted to Nanite Injectors, they can keep people on the front line on their feet, though will require a Logi's assistance to keep them operating at full potential. Give the Assaults a slight buff to EHP and tweak their racial bonuses to make them more Assaulty (built in damage mods would be a suggestion I would put forward) while tweaking the racial bonuses to Logi to give them more of a "support" role (as suggested above, a blanket reduction to equipment fitting requirements or focus each race towards particular equipment) This Would Kill the thing that Probably Brought A lot of People to DUST. No Restrictions. You Could be a Heavy Sniper, or a Scout AV. Its Freeform play Designed Class Making. This Would Basically Put a Big Kitten Hole In that Plan. "Well, I Want To Be Survivable, But I also want to Demolish HAVs and Installations. The Thing is, I cant use the Remote Bomb AND Be Survivable!" Then in the name of "No Restrictions", I hope everyone finds the most broken as can be fits and uses nothing but them until this community dwindles to a couple of hundred "No Restrictions" hold outs. Customization within Roles where there is room for growth within a fleshed out gameworld (that doesn't have horribly broken mechanics) is much more preferable to "No Restrictions" where we all run the same unrestricted cookie cutter fits in the name of "No Restrictions". I am not really surprised at the state of the game currently (or all of the doomsaying), I'm really starting to think that a good deal of the current playerbase just want something free-to-play while they help gut it.
Alaika Arbosa Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Interstellar Murder of Crows 397	Posted - 2013.06.22 20:53:00 - [5] - Quote Personally, I'd view it more like Covert Ops/Recon ships can fit Covert Ops Cloaks. Only Battleships can fit MJD. If it were done similar to this, I personally feel it would work. Logi are supposed to play a Support Role (something only really vaguely defined and horribly abused), they should be the most versatile dropsuit in regards to equipment.