my main assault is 214k

gko
duvole ar
creodron ip
thukker grenade
ishukone guaged nanohive
1 complex light damge
1 complex sidearm damage\
1 adv pg upgrade
1 pro kincat
2 pro ferroscale
2 pro reps

Update.

I've been running BPOs in pubs. I'm pretty sure I don't like it. To my mind, as stated elsewhere the suit and the weapons are the most expensive parts of a fit, so using a BPO without editing out the weapons for something else gives you both. Just upgrading the rest of the modules and equipment would then be the cheap option to get to a decent fit.

Something else about BPOs - with my skill levels they seem paper thin. If I can catch someone off guard I can mostly kill them in a flash. I have good aim especially with ADS on a rail rifle. But if they catch me off guard, it seems my suit is hardly even there - It's just ridiculous how fast they cut me up - my rail rifle hasn't even had a chance to charge to fire the first shot before I'm dead.

I'm used to shield tanking (EvE Online Caldari ships use exactly the same concepts). I'm used to tanking so that my suit will take enough damage before I can react to a side attack, then recharge the shields fast enough to deal with the DPS I'll take until I can kill them. The APEX suits, despite being deemed "Pro", are actually quite basic in their BPO fittings. I imagine this is so that people who buy them with AUR to get an edge actually need to be able to use them, so the PG/CPU of the fittings are limited. For me, there is about 30% the CPU and 40% of the PG of the suits unused. Not fitting at least the modules to use up this excess seems wasteful. Not trying to fit the suits to the best advantage really goes against the grain, especially when I die so fast I can't make any headway.

I think running BPOs is fundamentally good advice, under reasonable circumstances. But that doesn't take into account the ridiculously overwhelming number of proto stompers on the other side in almost every pubs match. Given that they are almost all proto stompers, I would have absolutely no chance of living through an encounter with virtually any of them in a BPO suit. It's not much better in a fully tanked suit, but at least I can survive long enough to maybe get a shot in.

So, it boils down to a choice between:
1. Run BPOs (APEX or MLT), die continuously and make virtually no WP and maybe no SP, but also don't lose ISK,
or
2. Run modified APEX or MLT suits, die less, maybe make a bit more WP and SP, for a small cost.

At the end of the day, the first option costs nothing but goes nowhere. The second option, however, has at least the chance of quality of play, costs a little, but allows me to make some WP, SP and of course more ISK. As a result, I'm having a tough time convincing myself running BPOs in pubs is the way to go. Maybe if I were a seasoned vet, running in squads, it would be an option. But a four-month experienced player running solo in a proto-stacked match? I think not.

I'm sure as I get better, my experience of running BPOs in proto stomped pubs will improve, but will it improve fast enough that I don't just leave the game in the meantime? And then there's the question about whether the game will even be here by then...