Even playing field OVERALL, yes. BUT:

In CQC, there will be those who are better.
At long range, there will be those who are better.

But 'those who are better' at x or z or y will be those who have THOUGHT (oh my god, no way, it's a thinking man's shooter!) about what they want to be good at. No more simply telling yourself "okay, I want to be good at sniping, so I'll get a prototype sniper". Instead, thought process becomes "okay, I want to snipe. Where do I want to snipe from? The hills? Okay, so I want a dropsuit with a bonus to sniper sway. Okay, now I have a choice between light and medium. I think I'll go with light, so I can reposition faster, and because I won't be sniping from places that people can sneak up on. Now, my sniper. I tend to go for headshots, so I want a sniper with a sway reduction bonus on top of my dropsuit. Also, now I want nanohives for resupplying my weapon. I want a hive that doesn't glow, so I don't get spotted because of it."

I mention some items that aren't even in-game right now, but sound damn cool to have. The point of tiercide is that the SP sink won't make newbies faint when they begin, and still provide a challenge to veterans who want to specialise because skills for individual weapons (even individual variants if we wanted to go that far) will cost a hell of a lot to maximise.

Also, FotM fits will be easily balanced because now, everything has a base level to compare against, instead of multiple tiers.

Ideally if tericide were to happen it would still be impossible to fit a full proto module layout into a suit. The player will have to make choices on mixing and matching between the best mix of advanced and prototype modules and weapons. This makes the skill of fitting knowledge most important. A skill once acquired can be used in any other suit as the player become more and more conscious and smarter over their suit's performance.

Also this will free up some paint schemes for the paint bucket store later on and severely reduce the art team's work loads.

Because Eve doesn't operate on the Basic, Advanced, Prototype marinda. Nor does eve operate on Breach, Flux, Gauged, Assault, Hacked, Tactical, Specialist variants either (though that would be cool for eve to pick up)

Also I take you just battleclinic most of your fits instead of going out and dying in something you slapped together on your own. You would have realized Eve online has an epic crap ton of fitting nuances even at max fitting skills.

You still have yet not fully explain why a tiericide would nerf vehicles if vehicles were also to get a tiericide pass?

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Okay I'm definitely going with (3 here, you're an idiot, what I want you to realise is that in a post tiercide there will be no proto vehicles, nor any proto AV. things will all be balanced at the same grade, and while we're on the subject I severly doubt and hope that we will never see proto vehicles, they will turn balancing AV and vehicles into an utter mess, an there's really no need for them. Not to mention that the sp sink they'll be will be ridiculous.

I am going state this quite simply, In my honest opinion, born of vehicle combat across 2 builds, over 9 million sp invested into the tree, hundreds of millions of isk spent, and 8 months of expeience, proto and ADV hulls for vehicles is one of the worst things that could ever happen to dust.

/facepalm, I give up, I actually give up, you are either literally too stupid to understand what me and several others have tried to tell you, or you are doing a very poor troll. And for the record I am one of the most outspoken dropship pilots on the forums, my post history will confirm that.

You also seem unable to comprehend the words "game wide balance pass" and the fact that said pass would balance AV and vehicles against each other, but then as has been clearly proven, you're too stupid to understand that.

look at this and see if you understand what we are trying to ask for. https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Item_Database you might notice there is no adv/proto/std tiers but instead a horizontal this is different but not necessarily better layout to all the gear and hulls

Frigate=Scout suit small fragile
Destroyer=Medium suit better tank
Crusier= heavy better tank
battlecrusier= LAV better tank
Battleship=HAV best tanking but huse in comparison

Happens quite often in eve. Hell we had a '18 wheeler' take out a battleship

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6so9AT4UydQ

The battleship and pilot was a **** fit and under normal circumstances a competent PVE player in that class of battleship would have massacred that iteron, however most pve'ers are not competent pilots and thus are easy targets. Also depend on what you define as a pvp setup. In fleet warfare you don't fit active repair tanks at all. Ergo if a frigate caught you on the way to muster and the fleet departed without you. A singular frigate can carry enough tech 2 ammo to blow you to pieces. Bottom line is that in order for most battleships to deal with a or a squadron of frigates or wolfpack destroyers requires fitting for that threat vector which detracts against the primary threat vector of other battleships and capital ships, cruisers and the like more. A single battleship cannot cover all its weak spots.

Also using Eve to balance warfare tactics analogies in Dust is a bit silly considering how fast a large turret can track scouts in Dust.

There are things that translate well from Eve into Dust. Anything dealing with application of damage is not one of them as argued by Hans' last night with some unknown skyper.

I am however glad as confirmed by CCP Wolfman that Tanks and all other vehicles are finally getting basic, advanced, and prototype equipment/modules. This is something they needed rather direly and would be far more useful to the vehicles than new hulls.