I am saying that all this talk of tiericide is stupid. I realized that this isn't EVE. The word tiericide comes from EVE so I use it as an example. In EVE they used tiericide to help lesson the gap between the ships in one hull size on the same tech level and it brought the T1 ships closer to T2 performance. In DUST we you want to tiericide the suits and weapons. Therefore, I infer that you want to make all suits and weapons of the same size accessable at the same SP level.

We have 4 medium frames with three types of each suits in each tier. Standard, advanced and Prototype. With tiericide that would make all suits available at level one. How is that making the game different or better? Why use any suit but prototype? All the bonuses are the same for each suit in that class so why would I choose an advanced over a prototype. There are three Armarr logi suits that all do the exact same thing why use Standard?

My problem is that there is no reason to use anything but protoype and with tiericide there would be no reason to even have the lesser suits unless the cost is prohibitively high and if that was the case then the same problems are going to be here still because bad players are broke and good players are rich. I want to know how tiericide helps new players, stops proto stomping or a lets older players feel like their investment of time matters.

Then please tell me how I am wrong and change my mind. I am running with the assumption that the tiericide everyone thinks they want work in a similar fashion to the way it worked when the term was coined.

Thanks, I am glad I am not the only one who enjoys a challenge. I hate being some QQ ranter but all this push towards diversity is disheartening, I want us to have a fun game that isn't afraid to be different or innovative, I see little innovation but I see lots of conformity to the norm.

Tiericide would allow proto at level one

There is the wrong assumption in your argument. Try again.

One more time so you have the opportunity to describe it to me. What is tiericide and how does it work?

You leave Magic out of this. You are correct I am not inept and I am thick. I agree with everything you said. We can fly a rifter on day one and yes a vet would mop the floor with a noob's rifter unless the pilot is as bad as me. T2 weapons are better than T1. My argument is that we don't have the tiers to do tiericide, with frigates there are mulple hulls that do different jobs or do the say thing differently, in DUST's assault class of mediums we do not have that luxury.

When I look at our suit and the different tiers I see standard like a regular frig, advance as a faction and prototype more like T2. Except that they are just better versions of the last. If we compare the Wolf and a Rifter we see that the Wolf is better, almost hands down every time. Tiericide helped T1 become more inline with T2 but didn't turn the Rifter into a poor mans Wolf. The wolf is different and better but it is a totally diffent ship. It has different bonuses and less slots(other things may be diffent but I don't fly Min so I don't keep track) and more specialized. In DUST moving up in a tier only awards more slots and doesn't change the function of the ship.

As players, we should want differences in suits not more of the same. When people talk about tiericide they want the suits to be even not different. They don't want more suits that have a different bonuses they want suits to be more equal so that no one has an advantage. If there were more suits in the same class bonused differently all with diffent skill levels then tiericde would be a valid argument. Until then it is bad and shouldn't be considered.

U MAD BRO?