I'm baffled as to why this idea isn't more popular with the Dust community.

Too busy trying to buff their gear and nerf everyone else's gear?

The situation, tiericide and Dust.

In the very far past people used to think throwing babies into fires was a good idea too, maybe there will be a return of that past popular way to get more out of your god.

In the present we have Dust, suits and vehicles both need tiers. Without a physical representation (even in digital) of all the work a person has done to get X amount of SP there is no feeling of achievement. This thought keeps me playing (for 2 years now) almost every day. Its the motivation for many mercs and should not be thrown away.

Skill bonuses, and new specializations (with bonuses). Most shooters manage to give players an addicting sense of progression without the things being unlocked being obviously superior.
EVE does better since tiers have been removed from what I understand.

I am a generous person but can verify that you have your facts backwards. Tiers have not been removed and are likely to be increased rather than downgraded.

I have no reference for tier additions in Eve but believe it was during one of their fanfest video presentations that they asked for ideas about which ship class should get a new Tier 3 ship. If you are interested in trying Eve to find out more about new eden please take the opportunity to take advantage of a 21 day free trial of Eve: 21 Day Free Trial (standard is 14 days).

Tier 3 Minmatar Battle Cruiser
In addition to T1, T2, T3 ships there are both T1 and T2 modules to fit to ships and there are also Faction modules with higher meta levels than the Tier 2 modules. Often the faction modules have lower skill requirements than the T2 modules.

Eve ships uses Tech, not tiers. Techs are basically levels of specializations. Tech 1 is like basic medium frame, Tech 2 is like logi, tech 3 is like a super-customizable suit where even the PG/CPU can be changed, at least that was what I was lead to believe. I think the use of the word tier is a mistake on the wiki, or the page is a relic from the past before EVE had tiercide (origin of the term).
Actually it could just be that tiercide is not complete in EVE, I searched "EVE Online tiercide" asking about when it will be complete https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=239100 , this could explain the page you linked with the tiers.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/74234 Here is an EVE devblog on tiercide.

"The Tornado is a Tier 3 Battlecruiser that sacrifices durability for the ability to fit large (Battleship-grade) weapons." --quoted from my previous eve wiki quote, and still listed in their descriptions.

They effectively just changed skill requirements which happens all the time and is not to be confused with removing tiers.

That in no way explains why ADV and PRO need to exist in the first place. Good matchmaking or not, tiercided dropsuits would still make them more balanced.

If you're expecting matchmaking changes to be some sort of miracle that makes every battle pretty fair, then you have your expectations too high. Nullarbor already made it clear that matchmaking will NOT be based on SP, and even if it somehow was, as game population drops, its inevitable that in some situations newer and older players will have to be in the same battles to fully populate them.

EVE got it right, specializations instead of tiers is the answer.

You miss the point, there have to be benefits for investing SP in something or it breaks the current system. The current system says if you have X skill to lv5 you can use the best gear. That gives reason to get X skill to lv5 rather than leaving it on lv1 or 3 where your advanced gear starts. If you remove the option and spec each suit to something different then you need more more more different things to make specialized and currently the suits are specialized with good, better and best as options for fitting. You want to remove good, better and best and make it the same for all lvs.

Try this...see if it fits

I think the OP is confused with what tiericide in EVE means. In EVE there were multiple ships in each racial class that were "tiered." You could fly the first Battleship of your race at racial battleship 1, the next at a higher level and the last at level 5 (maybe it was 4). Anyways, these were all very different ships that filled different roles, and having them tiered didn't make sense. Tiericide was making all T1 battleships of the same race have roughly equal stats. You absolutely do have better versions of the same ship in EVE and there are no plans for that to go away. For example, you have the standard Omen cruiser, a "navy" version of it which is significantly better, and the T2 Heavy Assault Cruiser version called the Zealot which will kick the crap out of a T1 Omen, it's also like 100x more expensive. You also have T3 cruisers, and the Amarr leigion can be configured similarly to an Omen. It will also kick the **** out of it.

Tiericide in DUST would be more like making sure the assault and logistics versions of a suit were roughly competitive with each other stats-wise, or Sentinals and Commandos having similar overall power (even though they have different roles, one is not meant to be the better version of the other). There is no intention to make T2 or T3 ships on par with T1 ships in EVE.

I can wear proto Amarr assault, but I run STD suits with better mods and advanced weapons 7 times out of 10. The risk vs. ISK is the most compelling feature of DUST. It's fun and interesting to make choices like "should I go advanced to get revenge on that proto pubstomper? Is it worth the risk to me of loosing it?" No other FPS games have you make decisions like that, it's part of what makes DUST the most interesting FPS ever made (not saying it doesn't have plenty of problems).

Weapons should also be cided.

But, otherwise, DO IT ******* NOW!!!!!!!!!!

I think the OP is confused with what tiericide in EVE means. In EVE there were multiple ships in each racial class that were "tiered." You could fly the first Battleship of your race at racial battleship 1, the next at a higher level and the last at level 5 (maybe it was 4). Anyways, these were all very different ships that filled different roles, and having them tiered didn't make sense. Tiericide was making all T1 battleships of the same race have roughly equal stats. You absolutely do have better versions of the same ship in EVE and there are no plans for that to go away. For example, you have the standard Omen cruiser, a "navy" version of it which is significantly better, and the T2 Heavy Assault Cruiser version called the Zealot which will kick the crap out of a T1 Omen, it's also like 100x more expensive. You also have T3 cruisers, and the Amarr leigion can be configured similarly to an Omen. It will also kick the **** out of it.

Tiericide in DUST would be more like making sure the assault and logistics versions of a suit were roughly competitive with each other stats-wise, or Sentinals and Commandos having similar overall power (even though they have different roles, one is not meant to be the better version of the other). There is no intention to make T2 or T3 ships on par with T1 ships in EVE.

I can wear proto Amarr assault, but I run STD suits with better mods and advanced weapons 7 times out of 10. The risk vs. ISK is the most compelling feature of DUST. It's fun and interesting to make choices like "should I go advanced to get revenge on that proto pubstomper? Is it worth the risk to me of loosing it?" No other FPS games have you make decisions like that, it's part of what makes DUST the most interesting FPS ever made (not saying it doesn't have plenty of problems).

Unrelated to this post but I had a question for Kage. You had an idea about a new type of big Shield Installation with multiple hacking points or something similar (I was having trouble understanding it the way it was worded). I'm having trouble finding the thread; could you post a link to it? I'd like to reference the idea in a post I want to make. Thanks.

Tiercide: the removal of tiers. There should only be 2 dropsuit tiers, MLT for testing things out without needing skills, and STD for when you have the skills to use the dropsuit.

There are many threads on the subject, this and this, but I thought I should make one specifically about how it should be handled. gbghg's thread covered why it needs to happen, and this thread is mostly about how to implement it, but basically here is why it needs to happen in case you don't want to read a bunch of paragraphs:

Tiers create imbalance in PVP, and there are no options besides PVP for new players to engage in until they can compete. This means players with less SP have an unreasonably massive disadvantage, and no other option besides getting stomped by vets for months to catch up. Some people might say something stupid like "New Eden isn't fair, HTFU", but this hurts player retention, and ultimately hurts the game's longevity; even EVE got rid of the tiers on the ships, and chose to go with just specializations.

Tiers also lead to many items becoming obsolete once a higher tier version is unlocked.

Removing tiers would make the game much more fun since there will no longer be such a massive difference in HP between players using the same suit type, so basically everyone will have a chance to be effective, and do well without having to worry about massive advantages and disadvantages ruining their fun.

[What should be tiercided & what should not]:
Dropsuits and ONLY dropsuits should be tiercided. Weapons, equipment, and modules should remain tiered; this is because low tier weapons, equipment, and modules still have a purpose as low PG/CPU costing alternatives which can be useful in making a fitting. Low tier dropsuits however have no such advantage when creating a fit.

[MLT basic frame dropsuits and their skills]:
Militia tier needs to exist as a way to test things out without SP investment. Make militia gear equivalent to the current ADV basic frame dropsuits. They should retain the same ISK cost as MLT suits.

[STD basic frame droptuits]:
Standard basic frames should be the equivalent of the current PRO basic frames. Should cost the same as the current STD suits.
The operation skills for basic frames need to give some kind of bonus to justify having 5 levels since specializations are unlocked at level 3. This bonus should also apply to all dropsuit specialization in that racial frame size.

[Specializations]:
Some of you may be thinking "without tiers, why would I spend SP on dropsuits?", the answer is to unlock specializations, and skill bonuses. Specializations should be a bit more expensive than the basic frame counterparts, but not by much since they aren't meant to be better, just more specialized at one particular area. Tiercided specialized suits (like assault or logistics) should be equivalent to the current PRO specialized suits.

[Monetization]:

Specialized suits with no skill requirements could still be sold. Having more specializations (at least 3 per frame size) would lead to a lot of dropsuits CCP could have for sell.

Certain AUR suits could have skill-bonuses of that specialization built in and maxed out to incentivize spending AUR. Don't want to max out Amarr assault skill, but want to be better with lasers? buy some AUR Amarr assaults.

This is basically how I would want tierside to be handled. Only dropsuits should be effected, MLT will basically be ADV, STD should be PRO level, no more ADV and PRO dropsuits. Basic frame skills should give some kind of bonus, and there should be more specializations.

YES.

your incorrect on one thing in eve there are tier but they go by a different name.

Tech-1, Tech-2, Tech-3 and, and within those tech levels, there are countless sublevels like the ones your explaining, but those also have sublevels, and the reason this is that way is because there is soo much complex stuff in eve online that to generalize them into 3 different categories would be disastrous.

having Tech levels instead of tier levels would benefit dust more like it has done with eve. but only when this game has at least 10% of the content CCP promised us, so far we barely have 5%