This would not work. From what I understand, every suit is loaded into every match regardless of what is actually deployed because the chance it could be deployed any second.

Every suit in dust. Think of it as the cache file for a video game on your PC. This isn't about the number of suits in any given match, but the number of suits in the cache.

It is possibly that the Academy matches do not bother to load up every possible suit in the game because the new players clearly don't have the SP necessary to field anything remotely near Advanced, let alone Prototype. By the time they get enough SP for ADV gear, they are most likely to have graduated from the Academy already and into the normal pub matches. There is no point in loading up every possibly ADV and PRO suit in the game in an Academy when none of the new players even have the skills to use them.

EDIT: Before the update that caused our alts in the same account to automatically skip the Academy upon creation, I was able to create a new alt that began in the academy. I was only in the Academy for just 3 matches before the system decided I was too good for the Academy and decided to throw me back into the sharks where I belong. I'm sure legitimate new players took longer to graduate, but probably not long enough to get into ADV gear by then.

In that case, what was the point of being able to hold 30 different fittings per player then if that is what was hindering it? Might as well cut it down to 10 or something like that but we know for a fact that no one will accept that.

And what about players who decide to create an additional fitting while in a match? What about players who have maxed out their 30-suit capacity due to being a Jack of All Trades? I'm already reaching that capacity after cross training out of the Proto Minscout and Proto Amarr scout into Minmatar Assault & Sentinel, Gallente Commando, Logistics & Scout, Amarr Sentinel, and Caldari Scout. That is a lot of suits of various tiers to play around with.

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Considering that we now have CCP Rattati? It is very possible, though not yet confirmed.

As I understand it from Rattati, every coloured variant of every suit ever made are loaded into the game regardless of if you have them in your inventory or not. This is so you can see them being used by others. This data includes animation frames for each one.

The Skin System means that only each of the three racial frames need loading to begin with, each variant is version of these 12 base models with a 'default' skin or one you're paid for or found in salvage. That skin is then simply applied to whichever of the 12 base frames the suit is based on. This is obviously a huge reduction in memory footprint the game has.