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Skihids
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Posted - 2013.10.21 19:19:00 -
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If all those dragonfly suits AR's and Toxin SMG's get out it would be a sizable population.
Still, I spent real money on them in Merc packs so they shouldn't be neutralized in value and left to rot in my inventory. So I'd be willing to turn in my extras for Aurum compensation.
That would be a way to keep the effect of BPO's to a minimum. If we actually get a sizable population increase the number of BPOs in the universe will be a small percentage of items used and therefore they won't be destabilizing.
As more and more BPO owners get substantial SP they will probably use them less and less.
If they meant to completely eliminate BPOs they should have just pulled them from the market with no big announcement. All that did was tell everyone to stock up now. Of course that is the fair thing to do if you are going to leave them alone, then you can say you gave everyone here the chance to grab them if they wanted them.
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Skihids
Bullet Cluster
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Posted - 2013.10.21 19:37:00 -
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Sigberct Amni wrote:The more I think about it, I feel like a voluntary conversion to something of value (boosters, AUR sum) is the only way to please both the Dust market and the players who were encouraged by CCP to stock up on extras. Code in some dialog for each BPO that will let you convert at any time if you want and soulbind them.
It's a ****** situation, but it's one CCP made for itself and customers should not be made to pay for their mistake. I know I will be more hesitant to spend in the future because of this, no matter how CCP decides to nerf BPOs.
Don't make the option obnoxious. I'm keeping one full set of everything and I don't want to be asked every time I use one. |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
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Posted - 2013.10.21 20:09:00 -
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Nirwanda Vaughns wrote:As i said in my previous post in this thread.
simply make the bpos work as they do in eve. allow us to buy and sell the ones we want for isk and tie the resources we need into PvE Drone infestation where we are rewarded materials to build the bpo items and use them, people who want to run 'free' suits can do so by running a few hours of PvE to stock up their suits but they are still consumable but you have to work for them a little and have the manufacture time so you have to wait for them to build as you do in eve. if you make it that you can build 20 suits a day then it doesn't damage the economy as much. even those who have multiple copies of the mag suits or covenant ect cant over do it. eventually the suits could be sold for isk which in turn helps us run proto and advanced gear and vehicles thus turns into an isk sink but helps with the limited income we get from grinding pub matches
As the post below yours makes clear, EVE manufacturing won't be possible as we use point of clone manufacturing.
Nobody carries a stack of 100 rifles, 30 scrambler pistols, 50 HMG's, etc. around with them. We make items one at a time at the point of sale.
As such you could charge for materials, but that should be a fraction of the license cost. Intellectual property is the main expense. So a 1k ISK copy would be made up of 950 ISK in license and 50 ISK of materials. |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
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Posted - 2013.10.22 03:08:00 -
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Disturbingly Bored wrote:Bucktooth Badger wrote:The annoying thing is this could have all been resolved many moons ago with a refund at release (or switch from closed to open beta, I forget which) that was originally suggested but withdrawn as a few might make a few extra AUR profit The problem there is that "a few extra AUR profit" was actually going to be "hundreds of dollars worth of AUR profit". CCP was going to refund the BPOs people bought for 30AUR at a price of 3500AUR. If you bought 20,000AUR for $9.99 and snagged 666 BPOs for 30 AUR, you'd get a refund of 2,331,000 AUR, which is $1,165 worth of digital muneez. CCP's accounting would have to write a $1,155 liability on their ledgers for every $10 players spent on BPOs. And then any reasonable CFO would make the streets of Iceland run red with the blood of the idiots who went ahead with the refund. See why they didn't, and won't ever, do it?
They know what you bought them for, so they could refund for the original purchase price. |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.10.23 13:05:00 -
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Evicer wrote:I think this point to needs to be made as well...
You changed the Valor Scout, Raven Assault, Sver Logistics so that they had to be unlocked thru there Racial trees....
SO what I think that means is 1 you sold the BPO'S as permanent items and then hit up your customers a second time with having to buy boosters so that they would have to unlock them.
The point Im trying to make is this....You gave them requirements to unlock.So if someone bought all 3 and Unlocked all 3 and never had any intention of selling them.Maybe some people did that..so how much Sp is that? What did that net you in booster sales?
I boosted to get into both the SEVR and RAVEN suits and I'm looking at the VALOR. I use both regularly now as they benefit from the racal bonus. I've pushed to L5 in Cal Assault and I'm currently at L3in Min Logistics working on L5.
That's generated plenty of cash for CCP. I have a single set and don't have any plans to sell or trade them off. |
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