I would just keep 99% of my wealth tied up in assets. Your system fails.

As yall pointed out it is flawed because people like me, with their own personal banking alt corp, would just shift ISK via Grand Bazaar.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1309442#post1309442

This is pretty awfully worded forgive me but basically what if suits, modules, weaponry, and equipment were all assigned a security status, the lowest being officer weapons and prototype gear. Basically it would act like a filter like you propose.

Hmm... even with assets counting, it's problematic.

Would AUR items count? A person who bought 50000 standard rifles would show up as richer than a person with one STD Rifle BPO, but they're the same in practical terms. Similar story for cosmetic suits, they suggest a greater deal of "power" ISK/AUR-wise, while not actually conferring additional combat benefits. A person could have lots of unusable items, which inflate their "worth" without conferring benefits. Similiarly, a character could keep a really lean collection of suits, and be very effective.

ISK is easily transferred to an alt on a separate account. Corp assets can have the same issue, transferred to a holding account. Total corp wealth suffers comparison-wise from corp-size if you use totals, and corp and averages are easily skewed on the small end as well. For example, an elite corp of 40 people would have a much easier time getting everyone's assets/ISK managed to keep the corp proto-stomping weaker players in comparison to a monstrosity like the FW Army.

I prefer meta/tier-style gating for practical reasons (if we were to have any gating or gear-locked matches at all).