Every time I think about Legion I think that BPO dropsuits are a bad idea. Because BPO dropsuits actually go against the very reason why the devs decided to make them BPOs: The emotional factor.

How can I become emotionally attached to something I can't lose anyways?

And of course: Everybody just using standard gear because they think protosuits are too expensive even though the players have the skill may not be the best way to solve this either, but it's better than just BPO dropsuits. Because when you have to buy a dropsuit you may actually think "during this mission I need to be on my best, so I will use expensive gear." but when your dropsuit is a BPO why should you ever use anything worse than your best dropsuit available?

I think the main problem here is that the devs used Dust as a orientation. But Dust is PvP only and the only source of income are Public matches for most people. And that's about 100k - 200k ISK ever match. But in Legion with the sandbox mode and the player market this will change. Because when you loot a lot and get rare lot once in a while you may actually make enough money to get killed even in full proto gear once in a while.

Making dropsuits to BPOs would only change one thing: The thing you're most attached to. This would become the next most expensive item you use. So probably your weapon.

Dropsuits would become worthless, because they actually are. And it would increase the power difference between noobs and pros. Of course you go for tiercide and all. But a proto suit is still better in some way than a standard suit. If it weren't there wouldn't be a reason for it to exist after all. And every player who is able to use a protosuit will do it then, while newbros are forced to use Std gear. There wouldn't be a case where you meet players who played for a year or so using anything else than proto dropsuits.

And I know Legion won't use the Std, Adv, Proto stuff anymore and will instead go for rarity, but let's be honest: That's basically the same thing.

I don't really like to write in caps on rage, but...

EVERY STRUCTURE AND ASSET SHOULD BE DESTRUCTIBLE, BECAUSE THIS IS NEW EDEN, AND IN NEW EDEN NOTHING IS PERMANENT! AND EVERYTHING HAVE A PRICE - EVEN DEATH!

I agree completely. But I think ccp is trying to attract a huge player base so we can have many epic ground battles simultaneously. Have easily double the number of dust mercenaries to pilots. I think since first person shooter require people who have short attention span, there needs to be something to hold them longer. They aren't the hardcore players that we are, which, well give us an edge in thoughts of stratagem and suit deployment. Hopefully our hardcore nature will give us an edge. But I see why ccp might want to do this. For their vision of what dust is, I support it but I don't agree with it.