Hmmmmm another option might be to remove basic suits all together. Just have the suits with bonuses?

Say **** off to the basic suits? Then people wouldn't have to skill into so many suits...

How about this as an interesting option. Basic race skills unlock the specialzation dropsuit skills for that race, but they themselves do not unlock dropsuits. You only need to get it to 5 to unlock some of the dropsuits skills *logi/sentinel*, but the basic skill doesn't unlock any suits. It maybe, gives them a bonus or is only used to unlock racial dropsuit specizalations.


I guess my point is, just, somehow, people need more access to the suits without the skill buffer. I would love more debate on the subject as well : ) I just really believe this is core to the future of the game and I'm glad to see the CPM take an interest in the topic, my personal solution isn't as important to me! As long as CCP knows it's important to ease up the path into suits without taing away the long training times overall.

And thanks for everyone who is taking part in this thread : )


Do we NEED basic suits? Would eve benefit from a rifter with no bonuses as a per-rep to a rifter with bonuses?

btw I aggree that people might be getting too many prototype suits to quickly with my original proposal. I think having x10 skills and basically getting rid of the x6 basic suit skills is now my opinion on a good fix.

Plus you can't use the special suits, because why use them when you've already got a prototype suit of the same model? You need to level it up to at least 3 or 5 before you can use those suits more often. I think the basic suits might kinda.... just mess with the progress curve of the game.... I no longer believe they add anything....