This is the reason BPOs are an economic issue. In the past use would be time limited because a player who could skill into better gear would stop using the BPO. With diminished advantages of higher level gear and low TTK the MLT items are quite competitive. There is some advantage to the good stuff, but it's not worth the cost unless winning means a whole lot which isn't often.

You could solve the economic problem by dramatically increasing the advantage of winning, or by returning to the old advantages of higher meta levels. If CCP continues with tiericide neither of these options will work.

Heres the problem. People would rather make money endlessly grinding pubs in free suits. Rather than pushing themselves to go into PC and actually develop how the game intended.

Highsec should not be profitable BPO's make Highsex profitable

I agree with most of what you say but disagree with the underlined

Here's another tidbit for those who say "do it the EVE way" ... CCP is actually trying to phase that out. New modules, for example, are released through controlled drops of BPC. They are still pushing this with the goal of taking back control of the economy/making the AUR store contain more temporary power ups, even after burn jita. So I would not bet on the EVE structure coming to DUST, since CCP doesn't like it in EVE already.

So what happens to DUST players who don't play EVE but purchased BPOs?