Lets say this magically solves all of the 'balance' problems as you see them, after tiericide how does the economics of suits work?

Will light suit v.1 be as cheap/expensive as light suit v.3?

If I'm accumulating larger piles of isk, what am I generally spending it on? If the grade of equipment doesn't exponentially increase my isk cost to field it, where does my isk go? Does it just pile up? When I can choose a 1k isk suit, a 10k isk suit, and a 100k isk suit, then a 200k isk payout means something substantial.

When/if all suits are similarly only specifically useful and similarly priced:

1) How does that effect the entry cost of suits-the price new players are paying to be competitive in them?
2) Are you going to assume that most of the cost of fits will lie in module fitting now?
3) Proponents of tiericide propose that suit bonuses rather than module fits will determine the uniqueness of different suit types/roles...what does this mean for the uniqueness of how each one is fit?

What I haven't heard from the tiericide folks is the approach tiericide will take toward the faucet:sink relationship that current STD>ADV>PRO gear has set up. The current tiers forces a significant relationship between cost and profit per match based on how strong of a suit you field.


The reason there is so much isk in the game at the moment has much less to do with tier/dropsuit balance and much more to do with the design of PC and the salvage rebates with Chromosome/Uprising. It is statistically impossible for everyone to eventually be running proto AND profit unless they all are just walking around in the game and not shooting each other.

Tl;DR: STD>ADV>PRO largely exists as an economic disincentive against fielding higher tier gear because pub match profit is so low. Please explain the micro/macro economic/cost/profit/incentive side of tiericide. Otherwise, I think this idea leads to an unsustainable and ultimately boring system.