Step 1: Make militia gear have the stats of basic equipment.

Step two: Eliminate SP requirements to use basic.

Step 3: price the now-basic equipment as militia.

Step 4: Reduce ADV dropsuits and gear to skill level 1.

Step 5: Retain prototype equipment at 4-5 skill level.

Adjust pricing accordingly.

Justification:

New players are expected to kamikaze around in militia fits while they learn the ropes.

Militia dropsuits are easily the most frustrating thing to run in DUST. Even as skilltanked as I am, its difficult at best to make an MLT dropsuit more than freekill fodder.

Functional suits allow new players to learn gungame and the mechanics with a little more margin for error. Old players like us can make basic suits into lethal platforms of death.

Militia equipment and armor bring nothing to the table except frustrated new players who we habitually dump on and show no mercy to speak of

No. -1

No. -1

Step 1: Make militia gear have the stats of basic equipment.

Step two: Eliminate SP requirements to use basic.

Step 3: price the now-basic equipment as militia.

Step 4: Reduce ADV dropsuits and gear to skill level 1.

Step 5: Retain prototype equipment at 4-5 skill level.

Adjust pricing accordingly.

Justification:

New players are expected to kamikaze around in militia fits while they learn the ropes.

Militia dropsuits are easily the most frustrating thing to run in DUST. Even as skilltanked as I am, its difficult at best to make an MLT dropsuit more than freekill fodder.

Functional suits allow new players to learn gungame and the mechanics with a little more margin for error. Old players like us can make basic suits into lethal platforms of death.

Militia equipment and armor bring nothing to the table except frustrated new players who we habitually dump on and show no mercy to speak of

So you expect me to use my SP for 3 levels without getting anything. Sorry but this is a really bad idea

So you expect me to use my SP for 3 levels without getting anything. Sorry but this is a really bad idea

Why not just remove the skill requirements to use Adv and proto?

I liked the idea where:

Make Proto Layout ADV, ADV layout STD, STD layout MLT.
Proto and ADV gear share slot layout - Proto just has more CPU/PG

More specific please.
Does this mean increasing # of adv slots or reducing proto slots?

Strange... that works in EVE really well.

actually in eve the modules have different requirement sfor skills. t1 modules require lvl 1 of that skill. then there are named varients of that module. they generally require lvl's 2/3 and are substantially better or slightly different to the t1 module. then there is the meta 4 module which is better in eveyr way to its t1 counterpart. this generally requires lvl4. then there is T2 modules that require lvl 5 they out class t1 moudles easly. then there is also faction/deadspace/pirate/officer modules that generally require lvls 3 to 5 to use and out class or are different to the t2 module.

so like in dust....if you want the better gear you need higher skills/more investment in that area. so like dust. its going to beawhile to have a decent ship fitting, tiericed only closes the gap to make progression more usful and simple.and balances most mechanics/other areas of the game,

This is not tiericide, as there are still tiers. Proto is still better than all the others. If the only suits available were proto level suits, that is tiericide.

Best we can do is have advanced become militia, and proto become standard. But even this is still tiered, just with less difference between tiers.