News: Matt Higby doing a Q&A at reddit!

[Firefly]

If they're doing outfit specializations where outfits can specialize in a specific role, then logically you have two options (if you care enough to spec):

1) run an extremely specialized outfit that focuses on one discipline, and thereby get the max amount of benefits
2) run an outfit with a few disciplines - like, infantry and armour and MAX - and obtain less benefits than a single-spec outfit

If this is the case, you will definitely see outfits that split into smaller outfits and spec each according to a discipline. This is why alliances now become incredibly important.

It's also a dumb fucking idea to force an outfit to specialize in one single discipline. Even bailure outfits that focus strictly on one style of play - flying their little Mossies over a target and bailing out to do some infantry combat - are going to need to do a bit of spec'ing in air combat. Because if an enemy outfit which spec's in strictly air combat is sitting between them and their target? Yeah it's probably gonna be a goddamned turkey shoot.

I'm very much against having to split my outfit into two, three, or four different mini-outfits just to spec my guys in the best path that will help get an edge. In PvP combat, ANY edge is an edge. Yes we could be all relaxed and chill and just let our skills and teamwork and coordination compensate, but I'd prefer to do that *AND* have my little percentile bonuses. At the very least I'd like to have some way to link all of us together.