I mean really, they are pathetic.
One grenade and one clip and it's gone lol
I think giving them the same nanite amount as a standard but only having one instead of two would be good.

No, you want cheap, their certainly cheap. skill to advanced, and their prime

Nano hives were fine and CCP shouldn't have touched them.

Kinda. They're pretty much useless, even for restocking yourself. For restocking team mates, they're even more useless. And anytime something is effectively useless, it probably needs to be worked on a little.

But that's your incentive to level up and spend more isk on better ones!

It has led to the creation of a new mini game though I like to run a cheap suit from time to time with MLT nanohives, I get on team chat and shout dropping proto nanohive at X location. Then listen to the rage/disbelief when the hive is used up before the bubble animation is even rendered.

Remember, the entry level stuff is for newbies.
They're going to use it and see how terrible it is and never skill into it.
It's not like they are visiting the forums or watch the patch notes like us, they won't have a clue that going up the levels will give them more ammo.

bro.
This isn't about me, I'm rich, I use proto nanohives (unless I don't have space on my suit for a proto one).
It's about the newbies, who have nothing but militia stuff.

I miss nanohives being awesome.

I'm still thinking that how they are should be fine, I understand the new player aspect, but also think its a good learning curve, you want better, roadmap it for your SP choices. Its also in the core skills section, which isn't a bad lace for newberries to be heading.

It's militia, it's supposed to be trash.

Dude, they're going to see how terrible the militia version is and never skill up.
Think about it this way, where does the game tell them that the advanced and prototype nanohives are a significant jump up?

How would they know anything gets better onced SP is sunk, because that is the theme of the game, and it pretty obvious pretty early.

Also the amount the militia gives isn't the problem either, its the speed, how many bullets per cluster, for a sniper it goes +2.........................+2...................................+2 lol, its like waiting to get aids.

Advanced and prototype nanohives are still awesome.

if your assault just dont carry militia locus nades they kill the hive

if you just have assault rifle and sidearm they work fine

also tell those dirty Ammar scrubs to keep their mittens out of your nano

I never really thought about them being terrible. I suppose they are. I use only the standard one, and while its slow and runs out, it does sort of get the job done. I think the militia version should get the second carried nanohive of the standard one, and they could both use a little buff to their capacity.