While balancing needs to be an on-going effort, some issues can't be fixed by balancing.
A standard tank won't be able to go against proto forge EVER. It shouldn't.

HMG lacking range isn't the problem. It's that a heavy have no heavy mid(or long) range anti-infantry weapon.
These things need to be fixed by adding new stuffs, not messing with existed one.

I do believe that my suggestion is another bare minimum requirement for this game. It's called frigging basic suit for a reason. It's also way more easy to solve than eliminate lag and FPS issue. This mean it can be finished in a definite timeline, thus a more realistic roadmap. I don't think CCP released EVE with only Galante/Minmatar frigate and Amarr battleship, did they ? (If this is the case just tell me I will shut up at once ^^")

I'd argue that most would agree with you, and so do I. That would be a properly balanced tank and FG. I'm not sure what you are trying to convey with that example.

Balancing and adding new stuff are not mutually exclusive; you can do both.

Dust's stated objective is a rock-paper-scissors mechanic. When Dust is properly balanced, TAR would not be the be-all end-all weapon it is right now, but just another weapon among many. In a properly balanced game there can be weapons which are superior at one application but vastly inferior at others - sniper rifle and nova knives being prime examples.

I agree that it would have been ideal to have a full suite of suits and weapons and vehicles available at launch. I also feel we should have launched with robust FPS mechanics in place.

But we are stuck with what we have, not what should be. What we have is that we lack both full set of racial gear and solid FPS mechanics. And choosing between those two, FPS mechanics must take precedence.

Unlike lag and frame rate issue, adding basic stuffs have definite solution and (relatively) definite timeline. It can be done in foreseen future. If you think waiting for them to finish it is too long, waiting for lag to be fixed and the end of dust will be upon us before it's fixed. I'm not saying lag shouldn't be fixed or should be leaved for later. I'm saying completing basic stuffs is way more easier and have a lot of gain.

-- Fix passive scanning (more range to suits that should have scanning bonuses like scout and logi; red dots that are behind you but are very close should light up on the map if your suit has the right precision for it and range).
-- Fix scout suit that currently does not have a role as it's worse at everything that it was supposed to be good at than other suits.
-- Along the lines of balancing: fix breach versions of weapons. Breach SG and Breach MD are useless. Breach FG is borderline useless.
-- Balancing: make other weapons more competitive relative to assault rifles
-- Fix knifing mechanic: fast animation and damage output, and knifer must be able to catch up to a backpedalling target if you are just a couple of paces behind them.

Not sure how you can make such assumptions unless you have insider information and are a game designer. For all we know Devs might have just the first draft graphics for suits and weapons, no place in the game, no stats, no playtesting, nothing. I have no idea how many man-hours all that would take. Just like I have no idea how many man-hours it would take to fix lag and framerate issues. Therefore discussing which one could come first is pointless. And that's largely irrelevant for the purposes of this thread.

I feel that fixing lag and framerate takes precedence over new suits and gear, and I bet most would agree. I appreciate these could be worked in parallel and are likely done by separate people. But this thread is about prioritization, and extra features belong under EVERYTHING ELSE. The game works fine without more suits and weapons, but doesn't without lag, framerate and balancing fixes.

I strongly agree with the ones about scanning and scouts - passive scanning is a non-feature in Uprising due to unnecessarily short scan ranges, and Logis are better scouts than Scouts in all aspects that matter.

Nevertheless, items above belong either under Balancing, or under EVERYTHING ELSE. Scanning does impact everyone, but it's not a (near-)gamebreaking problem.

I was debating about including it and I decided to because I feel that passive scanning is what makes or breaks scout and as of not scout is broken. Since 1 out of 4 dropsuits practically never gets used, I think it affects the game profoundly. But I definitely see your point that these things are difficult to prioritize.

Trouble with dust is that everything will be added or sorted later.

The game has been in development for a long time and most of the basic issues should have been put right during beta but alas things remain the same for the most part.

I dont want to play a good game 4 or 5 years down the line I want to play one now, which leaves dust out on a limb.

Yes it has potential but who wants mediocre when you can purchase any number of decent fps now, and the free to play just is not enough to hold you to it when it clearly has many issues still.

Very critical is Dusts possibility to get new players!
Maybe the most critical Part!!

i showed Dust to everyone of my Friends to get them involved, but most of them not even survived a day online.
Dust must evolve in this point to simply survive the Goal of another "Decade" Game.

The Academy is quite a good idea, but they need far more then this, new players neet to be taken by the hand:

• Trainings, like aiming on "Drones" and Stuff - Like in EVE the Aura Missions with simple tutorials
• More SP/WP based Rankings for open Games (minimum 5) - With: 1 bloody noobs, 2 Advanced Noobs, 3 Medium skilled/trained Mercs, 4 Professional Mercs and 5 Proto Pro Gamer
• Friendly Games/Duell's aside of PC and Corp Matches (without gaining WP or whatever)

The Tutorials are the most important thing for a newbie, just to get a look and feel to the game.
Getting stomped by well skilled, well organized, well stuffed Mercs at the first days will lead to 80-90% falling apart