Can i help if if im gallente and think amarr suits are sexy?

if you want team spirit just squad up with corp mates willing to all wear the same race of suit.

Mercenaries will use the best weapon for the job and kill whomever it pays the most to kill.

They are businessmen, not idealists.

Our loyalty is to the Almighty ISK. If you want loyalty, be prepared to pay for it.

That makes logical sense, but you would be asking players to pick a suit based on lore before they saw the stats.

Locking suits and factions by your chosen race is ******** and incredibly hard to balance unless all the assault/logi/heavy suits are the same across all races.

Also, my Caldari character in EVE flies Guardians and Scimitars often. It wouldn't make sense for us to be locked in DUST.

[edit] And OP, I really hope your "Raging Pack of Homos" corp is as into RP as you seem to be. Must be fabulous.

"Buy Amarrican,support your empire's dropsuit industry"

Lore wise it makes sense that DUST mercs would lose their connection with a faction if not the entire human race.

Capsuleers wear custom clones and rarely die which allows them to remain connected to their past lives. Mercs on the other hand wear generic clones and jump several times per battle. After several months of that how could you even relate to mortals, much less identify with them?

We are far more likely to identify with each other, despite any internal rivalries. Killing each other isn't personal, it's just business. We are all going back to are MQ at the end of the day, so there is no reason we can't get together for a drink after the battle.

After years of battle and watching empires rise and fall we will feel outside it all. The factions created us to serve their ends, but we have become a new race apart from them with our own agenda. Watch the latest EVE trailer for the warning to mortals that we are rising up as a new superior race.

@cy6: To the OP, I would agree with you but it prevents one thing. With that you would be locked into a certain race.

CCP wants this to be a sandbox game. More than that, it's a game that offers flexibility. What if one day you choose that the race you chose (assuming based on your profile) that you hated the Amarr and their evil ways of enslaving the Minmatar and decide to join a freedom faction that fights for Minmatar? Under your system, you can't do that and would have to re-roll a character that was Minmatar. With the current system, you can simply switch over to using Minmatar suits, guns and equipment with no trouble and even carry your dark past with you.

And trust me, there are some EVE players (and Dust players too) who are loyalists. In fact we had an EVE player not too long ago complaining that mercenaries from his alliance were fighting for the opposing team. Which we "gently" reminded him to HTFU and if you want your alliance to be loyal, force your mercs to fight for one side and if they defect, kick them from the alliance.

And right now, it's just Empire factions. Wait until we start striding into null sec...

You have role play story for your character don't you?