Shift the costs to the suits and weapons that is lost on the suits. Make certain suit classes slightly more pronounced in prices too for example there would be a large multiplier of a difference between tech 1 suits and their tech 2 cousins like 10x more maybe?

Gallente had 7 frigates,

3 in teir 1 2 in teir 2 and 2 in teir 3 and teir 3 where not always the best even though they had the highest skill requirement (lvl 3) and nobody ever used tier 1s despite being the most cheapest because it was riskier to get caught dead in those ships.

Post Teiricide

7 Frigates, all the similar mineral price. All useful all being used much more often now a days

Also your idea would not work in the academy Vell0cet, it has yet to work, and I know expanding a second round of battles it would pronounce how wrong your idea is.

Your looking at it the wrong way. What tier code would do is give MLT-ADV suits a fair fight vs a proto suit. The Proto suit will still be better and more expensive but the difference would be a lot smaller for example a proto suit compared to a MLT suit can have up to 30% more damage and double the HP. That's so unfair, and the learning curve and SP required to catch up is very steep. What tiercide would do is bring low level suits inline with proto suits, but will reward the higher level suits with a small advantage not a huge one. At the same time it will add variation with type II suits etc.

I'd love tiericide, but at the least I'd hope to have a uniform slot layout across all tiers. Slots are what we use to make our fitting and roles unique and individualized to our own preferences. They are something that we should always have, and not be the bargaining chips to balancing the game.

" You people really don't want any competition at all .

Where is the competition in having a mlt suit go against a proto suit lol? This is a rather contradictory statement to defend what we have now vs tiercide. But regardless let's get out of the present and let's look into the future, explain to me how this system will work when we have PVE? When we have something more than mercenaries in a lobby shooter things like actually conquering and taking planets, exploring planets, raiding crap all that good stuff... The majority of new mmos have established systems where new players are able to compete with vets. There is no competition once you at prototype level because you didn't have competition at basic level. When they game was launched most of us already had the SP saved up to go proto. But there is such a disconnection between the proto player and the basic player that it's more than just skill. The suit defines the player not the player. This is what I am hoping tiercide fixes, I want to be able to win matches because of my skill not my suit, I want to die because the other player has skill not because of his suit. And new players should be able to experience the game like this. Not only will tiercide help the NPE but it will also pave the way for a more competitive game and lay down some foundations for the PVE/MMO balance. And as far as competitive goes it will be easier to fix TTK issues, weapon balance, etc if there weren't 4 scales to balance.

Every fps has AA, AA has nothing to do with it. The game is already dumbed down with the only modules that matter being armor, shields, and damage modifiers... If we could make suits on an equal level then other modules will matter and that in itself will increase diversity ten times higher than what we have now, which is null to begin with... and with dropsuits the only ones that matter are medium suits god forbid a scout becomes competitive in the next century and a heavy can withstand more than 2 second of fire.