Alena Ventrallis
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Posted - 2014.05.01 15:18:00 -
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Tiericide means everything is the same meta level with different functionality. For example, on Eve side pre tiericide, there were 3 tiers of battleship, each getting better in overall stats as you went through the tiers. Afterward, each battleship focused on a different area. One battleship focused on EWAR, one focused on straight up damage, and one focused on the racial tank. Tech 2 ships would focus on one aspect of a particular hull and sacrifice the other. One T2 ship might focus on tank, while another T2 ship based on the same hull would focus on gank (see the Punisher, Retribution, and Vengeance for examples of T1 - T2 ships)
Tiericide in Dust would be very difficult without a big change to the dropsuit command tree at the very least. You would have one Amarr dropsuit skill, which would unlock the basic medium, heavy, and light Amarr suits. Then you would have specializations. Instead of Amarr Scout skill, it would simply be the Scout skill. So In order to use the Amar scout, you would need a set level of Amarr dropsuit (3 for example) and at least 1 level in Scout to use the Amarr scout suit. So the Amarr scout would require two different skills in order to wear it.
Now let's say you take Caldari dropsuits to 3. You would unlock the Caldari basic light, medium, and heavy suits. But since you also have a level in the Scout skill, you would also unlock the Caldari scout suit. Sounds complicated, I know, but read up on how Eve does it to hear a better explanation.
Now wht we would do is make the current proto suits the new basic suits, and advanced suits would be the new militia suits. Now one racial dropsuit skill unlocks all the basic suits for that particular race, and the specializations (Logistics, Assault, Scout, etc.) Are there own skill (A Logistic Dropsuit skill that affects all races logistics suits, instead of an Amarr Logistics Dropsuit skill, a Caldari Logistics dropsuit skill, etc.)
This also makes balancing a lot easier, because we don't have to balance 3 different versions of a particular item. Also, hopefully it would make running good suits a lot cheaper.
That's what you get!! - DA Rick
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Alena Ventrallis
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Posted - 2014.05.02 01:26:00 -
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An addendum to my previous post.
Along with unlocking more skills, the suits would have different skills based off of the racial dropsuit skill. For example, Amarr Dropsuits skill unlocks basic light, medium, and heavy dropsuits. The light dropsuits would have 5% increased sprint speed per level of Amarr Dropsuit, medium Amarr dropsuits would have 5% reduced heat buildup of laser weapons per level of Amarr Dropsuit, and Amarr heavies gets 5% to armor plate efficiency per level of Amarr Dropsuits.
So taking Amarr Dropsuit to level 5 gets you max efficiency out of all basic Amarr dropsuits, rather than having to get level 5 in 3 different skills.
That's what you get!! - DA Rick
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