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.

Actually it's just a chance for some of it's mods to drop. It's mostly the satisfaction of taking away someone's expensive toy, which is the same reward you get in DUST (and also a percent of the cost of the suit/fittings gets added to the pool to be distributed at the end of the match, so you get a bigger payout). Don't you get a warm and fuzzy feeling when you kill someone's proto? Is there any other FPS that delivers such a satisfying experience?

The purpose of tiericide is to introduce a greater diversity in fits. With tiers you simply have improved versions of the same few dropsuits. Without tiers we're free to spread out rather than up, so no suit would be better than any other, but there would be a larger difference between individual suits.

What diversity there is no diversity know? Explain to me how diversity is having a bunch of crappy suits to be fed as fodder to proto suits. That's not diversity that's just having a huge advantage, that's like bringing a pen to a gun fight and saying it a fair fight because you have experience with the gun. Tiericide calls for providing an even field, he'll if every suit didn't have to worry about tanking alpha damage we would see MODULES which are what make or break suits actually meaning something. The only modules that matter are damage modifers, shields, and armor. Diversity should come from the role you play on the field now how weak/strong your suit is; because it is the same suit as the other guy except yours has more slots that's so diverse!

My plan calls for a fitting bonus to be given to all suits as you raise their required command level thus a player first stepping into the suit cannot equip prototype weapons and modules but as he puts more levels into it he can then afford to continue to upgrade the suits performance.

The idea is not remove player progression at all but to shift its focus onto suit fittig and more extreme focus on making better fits for the playstyle thus fitting and how to fit the suit becomes the overall meta.

A player who grasps the concept early and quickly an empower a suit as easily as a proto suit can by equipping the same exact but weaker which the module's own gulfs between bottom to top are not so massive as the one pronounced in proto suits verses militia due to slot disparity alone. (slots are if you done any math wizardry on how ccp concluded their balance designs are extremely weighted )

With the loss of the proto suits the isk cost on regular suits are going have to adjust to be affordable and common. This means the modules between metas are going to gulfen a bit more to emphasize risk versus reward still matters.

This also cuts down on totally useless skills and empowers players earlier per level they unlock with suit command.

Tiericide gets my vote. There's a number of good reasons for it, but the main benefit is that new players have a (slightly) more even playing field, which will help player retention.