It's obvious original poster does not understand that games are not developed by democracy for good reason.

I just feel like when I asked for a refund for my BPO suits...they should have given it to me...before I speced into them just so I could get some use out of them.

My point, Maken, is that just because players want it, even overwhelmingly want it, doesn't mean it's actually a good idea.

I know this may sound simplistic and not complicated enough ....

But ,why can we just use ISK to restock BPO's ?.... i will be happy just having the cosmetic look. Maybe just a bit less ISK to restock them.

If you were around back then during the transition from closed beta to open beta, you would know why CCP had to NOT give the AURUM refund (except for UVTs and Boosters). A few elite players would have had tons of AURUM in their wallets magically appear without spending more cash.

If selling/trading BPO's is bad, why does it work so well in EVE?

Because BPO's in EVE are not even remotely similar in any fashion to BPO's in DUST?

Everything in EVE costs actual resources to create. A ship BPO doesn't mean you have infinite ships. It means you can create infinite ships with that BPO, for a resource cost, at a production facility, over a duration of production time. And those BPOs can be optimized to reduce resource cost, construction time, etc. But each ship costs resources to construct, and time to construct it. BPC's in EVE, meanwhile, let you build only a select number of things.

The problem with DUST BPO's, is they cost nothing to use. There is no cost of materials, it just spawns you items on the field.

This huge dissimilarity indicates why saying "It works in EVE!" is about as good of an argument as "Bananas are fruit!" Because if BPOs in EVE are bananas, than BPOs in DUST are the color three. There's simply no comparison there.

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Back when the redeemable items window was limited to (I think) 20 items and people (myself included) began losing items that were being issued for participating in events I straight away assigned all my items to my main character so they had room to give me my stuff.

This combined with the fact that second and third character slots are rendered redundant by the free2play and the free PSN account and the passive sp gain restriction to 1 character making it not worth creating a second character, but instead creating a second PSN account.

And the fact that the Merc pack was the most economical method of buying boosters over the straight AUR packs, since you got a 30 day booster and enough AUR to buy (I think it was) 5 weeks of further boosters.

Leaves us with a situation where I (and I'm sure many others) have multiples of Exiles, Toxins, Skinweave sets, Dragonflies, I know people have multiple MAG sets from stocking up on boosters during that weekend and I don't doubt the list goes on with other 'event prize / Merc Pack bundle' BPOs.

If these aren't tradeable or at the VERY least donateable to corp hangers for new player recruites to make use of.

That's all related to them working in their current state, which CCP have said isn't good for the game, so all this about locking them to characters is the wrong topic to be discussed ... BPOs are blueprint originals ... a blueprint is a set of instructions that tell you how to make something ... it is not a box set of build your own IKEA bookshelf, there are no panels, no shelves, no stupid little jointing screws and no glue (ohh wait IKEA doesn't provide glue ... maybe their stuff would last more than 6 months if they did, but I digress).

Lt Royal made the only valid point in this thread, BPOs should be used with materials to install a manufacture job in your NPC station (as they do in Eve) ... you find or buy the materials off the market ... an NPC haulage corp can move them to your station at a small cost if you have no Eve access ... and you install the job, come back in 17 hours 24 minutes and 51 seconds and hey presto you have a batch of 100 Exiles for the low low cost of a few hundred isks worth of materials that you can use or sell on the market to others for a profit.

By the way I didn't vote since I don't contribute to like farms ... I only vote in official CCP voting threads when they want a consensus ... Lt Royal got my like for having the RIGHT idea.

PS. I will post this in the other thread also, before you ask.

The problem with voting is that you learn what the majority of people want and then when you go and completely ignore the result it's obvious and you look bad.

I was, and a few people I know got refunds. They sent in help tickets and CCP refunded their Aur. I did the same but CCP said no. So I speced Into scout.

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OFFICIAL VOTE #1 = In favor of letting players freely trade their BPOs with other players once the secondary market arrives.

You probably missed a deadline or something. I don't know.

I see the point that you're making. I'm actually all for making the BPOs require some kind of material for production just like Eve Online BPOs, which means anyone who has them will be in a position of influence since the BPOs have unlimited runs compared to the copies and since there will be no more BPOs like them in the market.