now that you've written quite a long summation i'm going to tell you that there are no tiers in dust yet. every suit is a tier one suit. when they start releasing tier two suits we'll talk about why tiericide will be important way down the line, but not now.

He is asking for making every suit act differently rather than merging then in a soup of monotony. His suggestion means that when you go from Gallente Assault 1 to Gallente assault 3 you don't unlock a better suit but rather you unlock a Suit completely different. I do agree with a merging of suit slots across tiers but removing the tiers and making every level unlock something different is a much better idea. For example imagine at level 1 you get what is now the Prototype suit, armor tanked, at level 2 you unlock the same suit with the reverse layout and Shield tanked, at level 3 you unlock a speed tanked suit, level 4 a sneaky suit, etc.

So if you want the sneaky suit type that's level 5, and your buddy wants the frontal assault suit type that's level 1....you're just boned because your play-style differs? Each specialty should be its own tree but you need an incentive to level up your specialty.