And that's exactly why they should be player locked. I don't have a use for all those extra Dragonfly Scout suits sitting in my inventory, but I understand it could be a huge problem spreading them around the community.

The only other thing I can think of would be to lock them still, but offer some sort of voluntary BPO trade-in program. Say, trading BPOs for FW LP? Then you get the community to voluntarily destroy the BPOs themselves.

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.

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

The reason why BPOs aren't working as intended is they are having a large negative impact on the ingame economy. For the economy to function properly, items need to be consumed in battle. With BPOs, no items are consumed, which breaks this fundamental requirement.

As far as trading of BPOs, that's not decided yet. I will be taking your feedback though. We'll let you know when we come to a decision.

To CCP:

You could offer a reasonable sum of AUR or ISK through a "buyback" effort.
Mercs will readily part with the BPOs they don't use, so you'll have fewer BPOs in circulation.

The reason why BPOs aren't working as intended is they are having a large negative impact on the ingame economy. For the economy to function properly, items need to be consumed in battle. With BPOs, no items are consumed, which breaks this fundamental requirement.

As far as trading of BPOs, that's not decided yet. I will be taking your feedback though. We'll let you know when we come to a decision.

To CCP:

You could offer a reasonable sum of AUR or ISK through a "buyback" effort.
Mercs will readily part with the BPOs they don't use, so you'll have fewer BPOs in circulation.

what about this:

you allow players to run off copies from a bpo. the bpo itself is not a suit. to produce your copies you have to pay "x" amount of isk per suit/item which is substantially less than the isk variants. all your bpo's can be listed on the market in a new menu and you just run them off from that menu.

isk is being lost, and bpo owners are still saving isk.

thats a compromise i would be willing to accept but the isk cost has to be at a level to make them worthwhile

To CCP:

You could offer a reasonable sum of AUR or ISK through a "buyback" effort.
Mercs will readily part with the BPOs they don't use, so you'll have fewer BPOs in circulation.

Glad to hear you aren't taking BPOs from player inventories.
You could nerf bat them to discourage use, but that'd be plain dirty.

+1

I bought the elite pack and the other one because of the BPO's
I was under the impression like other items in the game we could be able to sell them.
as with the whole respec issue you will do wharever you want.

I have multiple LAVs and boo suits and so many SMG's

If you had told me that each one I bought i would not be able to resell I would not have purchased so many.

I guess you have made a fool of your paying customers once again if you do not allow us to sell these items.