He listed it as a BPO, so it will not cost ISK (unless they have it as a 1 time purchase, but you'd still probably start with all of them as a newbie)

Sorry Nocturnal, and Denchlad 7, I seem to have caused some confusion.

The idea with the 81k was just an example he gave, not the final in game price. Basically the only thing to keep in mind is that the cost of the Proto-suit and the proto-powercore is the SAME. No costs are changing in how much a suit costs.

That also applies to you Nocturnal, the suit itself will be just a BPO, but the Powercore still costs ISK, and without said powercore you just have a very nice looking useless suit. So this isn't really making the game any more CoD like, it is just offloading the memory requirements of having so many suits into just having the much cheaper modules.

Wouldnt all of the suits proportionally go up in capapbility?

Std becaomes nearly as good as current ADV, and ADV beomces nearly as good as current Proto, and full proto (given disparity between it and the regular suits) stays the same.

Sure you can plug in a couple CPU mods, but your giving up tank, regen, speed that a suit of a higher tier can comfortably fit.

I have a question on the whole powercore as it regards PG/CPU. Your initial post has some CPU/PG numbers for Std/Adv/Pro. Are we going to have individual powercores for each race or is it going to be a set powercore across the board? The reason I'm asking is because when it comes to the PG/CPU fittings on the suits, a Caldari and an Amarr has WAY different fitting costs because of the slot layout. If they have the same PG/CPU powercore, one of them is invariably going to get the short end of the stick.

Either Amarrs are going to be gimped in fitting their lows or Caldari are going to be gimped in fitting their highs if my thought process is correct, yes?

Maybe I'm just not understanding the concept but this has been nagging at me the entire time reading this thread (and yes, I read every post).