Amarr suits also have the most base health (I should know, I use them).

Amarr suits also have the most base health (I should know, I use them).

I'd hate to think the reason simply is - Amarr EVE ships are slow therefore let's make the Amarr DUST characters slow as well by having them take a hit to their base sprint and movement speed.

It's weird that Amar medium suits are slower than Gallente which have more armor. I would have thought medium suits would be, from fastest to slowest, Caldari (lowest armor), Amar (2nd lowest armor), Gallente (highest armor).

Out of all mediums I have to say Amarr is beefiest. It looks armored so I do expect that is slower. The gallente are the skinniest. It also seem they would have better shields and be faster. Minmatar look hefty to me so I would think they would be slow. But I guess not. The caladari just looks balanced.

Better tanks...so there needs to be a drawback.

Gallente Proto gets four lows while the Amarr Proto has three - how does the Amarr Proto Assault therefore then have a better tank?

That fourth slot makes a difference.

Gallente Proto gets four lows while the Amarr Proto has three - how does the Amarr Proto Assault therefore then have a better tank?

That fourth slot makes a difference.

Split tanking...and fitting. And as others have said...higher base health which quite frankly is reason enough.

This is what I've done to get some speed out of the Amarr medium.

I call it my wannabe Amarr Scout Placeholder fit.

http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/h436/Alex_Cotman/20130606_094928_zpsd81dc7ad.jpg

That reminds me of the old caldari assaults from the last build.

Amarr trade some speed and a slot for a lot of extra CPU/PG and some HP.
My friend who fully specced into Amarr can fit all proto, while I'm struggling figuring out what to turn down a level and what to turn up.

I would guess its since the Gallente use a more high tech light weight alloy.

While the amarr get more armour by using more metal(I think gold, cause it looks like gold)

We're looking for gameplay reasons, not lore reasons.

You haven't been around New Eden too long, have you?

Nope, nor do I care how EVE has done thinks. This is an FPS, gameplay always comes first.

You sure he doesn't just have his Electronics and Engineering trained higher? Amarr doesn't get much more CPU/PG, especially considering Gallente can counter it with a fitting mod in that bonus low slot they get.



We're looking for gameplay reasons, not lore reasons.

I think I got it, the amarr are meant to be a class lower than it. the assault amarr is meant to be the amarr scout and the amarr logi is meant to be the assault amarr and here is the big kicker the amarr heavy is meant to be the amarr logi so wait im sure a heavier amarr class is coming out.

And for what reason do you believe that the Amarr suit should be as fast as other suits?

I would guess its since the Gallente use a more high tech light weight alloy.

While the amarr get more armour by using more metal(I think gold, cause it looks like gold)

The answer is very simple. The filthy Amarr have to stop after every step a reflect on their own perceived superiority.

Yes, Amarr tend to be armor tankers which means armor plates which leads to speed penalties, but so do the Gallente. The Gallente are also armor tankers yet their suits do not suffer from an across the board speed penalty.

I would like to assume that it is a balancing method to counterbalance the fact that the Amarr suits have a hefty amount of PG and CPU in comparison to the other suits. I assume it would be imbalanced to allow the Amarr suits to have a nice chunk of PG and CPU AND be as quick as the other suits as well. Then again, the Amarr suits "need" the larger PG and CPU values in order to fit their complementary laser weapons (although which weapons a person uses is to their own discretion).

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=85270&p=2

The amarr assault suits have a bonus to laser rifle overheating


1. The amarr, compared to gallente, assault also has more max CPU/PG while having a bit of a speed penalty, would you like to remove the CPU/PG advantage in order to get rid of the speed penalty?


2. If you add up the total shield/armor for the amarr it comes to 360, if you add it for gallente it is 330, again you have more shield/armor total in the amarr than the gallente would you want to remove that advantage to increase the speed?


3. The amarr recharge delay is 6 while the gallente is 7, again same question...are you willing to lose this to gain the speed?


4. The amarr sprint duration is 20 while Gallente is only 15.......this is because amarr's stamina is 200 while gallente is only 150..are you willing to lose stamina for speed?


5. Amarr stamina recharge rate is 20 while gallente is also 15, again.......same question.

I think you didn't look deep enough at the stats before using the Gallente class in your example.

Do you want me to do this for a different class of suit? If you are not an assault suit user I can do the comparisons for whatever class you want. It is the same for the scout, logi, and heavy when comparing amarr to gallente and I do have all the stats right here if you would like me to post anything.