then everyone could be able to use them to their hearts content without repercussion of losing them

I am speechless i can't even put into words my feelings about this...

Before everyone goes on saying or some other nonsense, id like to bring up some things about the officer weapons status once the player market becomes reality here.

1. Once the player market becomes reality for dust 514, officer weapons will no longer be attainable from salvage, they have never been able to be bought in the artificial market with ISK.

2. Once the player market comes, the amount of officer weapons currently in existence (say about 1000 through he entire community) will be all there is, no more will ever be given or attained, the only way to get one would be to buy from another player.

3. Once the officer weapons get used up by combat players, they will no longer exist outside the collectors (im a collector) who wont sell their officer weapons away.

4. When the very last officer weapon is sold and used in combat, they will never be seen again.

So, i thought of something:

Make one of each officer weapon in our inventories a blueprint, BUT not a blueprint we can equipped into our dropsuits. Instead, make it a manufacturing blueprint like in EVE online, where blueprints are used to create amounts of equipment depending on the amount of resources available to the manufacturer.

Do the same to the officer weapons.

Ex: i have 50 Balac's Gar Assault Riffle, i would pay 100M ISK (or somewhere around there, it cant be too cheap to where everyone could do it, and it cant be too expensive to where rarely anyone would have them) for ONLY ONE of my officer ARs to become a blueprint, that blueprint would then be stored in my blueprint inventory where i can keep it until i have a way to get recourses from EVE online and create my own supply of them and sell them at my price, however the amount able to be made at any given time should be limited so they would still be rare.. the other Balac's i would own would be sold off and used up in battle.

this can also be done for all the officer weapons in the players storage.

This way the officer weapons would still be a rarity but never cease to exist and people could be suppliers.

any thoughts? suggestions? trolling?

Allowing anyone any modicum of control over the supply of officer weapons will break both game balance and the player economy.

I have to say No here...
These weapons are of a caliber far higher than proto...
Giving anyone the ability to use them as they please, without fear of loss,
would mess this game up further than it already is...
Not saying I wouldn't like infinity Krins in my armoury though...

Now what's wrong with the current system where everyone has a even chance of getting them.

I mean i am all for the rich getting richer idea, but as i am looking forward to the future of dust and the new guys coming in i do feel like this will f*ck them because they will have to buy from the rich vets inorder to get a officer weapon.

100mil to get an Officer BPO is not a much as you think it is, i would have one of every type of BPO and i don't even play PC, the guys who do and are higher up in their corp hierarchy pocket billions from corp wallets. so 100mil for a BPO is nothing to them.

500,000 aur for bpo officer weapon. Omgp2wwtf?!?!?!

******* read it... YOU WONT BE ABLE TO EQUPED THE BLUEPRINT ONTO YOUR DROPSUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I get this sneaking suspicion that your impression of how salvage in public matches works is a bit off. Officer weapons have a very low drop rate in this context, but new ones are generated.

When the player market hits, officer weapons will be enormously expensive because of high demand by high paying customers (people who play PC potentially have a lot of excess ISK lying around) combined with low supply. Officer weapons won't, however, run out or become collector's items.

If you're indicating that there might be a need to have BPO's of officer gear in the sense of Eve Online's BPO's at a point in time where items in Dust are actually player manufactured, I'd say that's definitely a somewhat interesting discussion. Overall though it's rather academic- Eve has more than enough infrastructure to support distributing BPC's by the normal routes CCP uses to introduce items.

First off this is a stupid idea. Making such super powerfull weapons unlimited (read free) would massively unbalance the game. If I had a BPO of a Balac's I would use it every single match. I would rain rounds that do more damage than a duvolle down upon you from my 72 round mags at rates that would make you cry. Just imagine what the 30 mil sp players would do with them. No one should have permenant anything above basic level since it is simply too imbalancing.

To follow this up thinking that the player controlled market would mean an end to salvage is stupid as well. In even you find officers equipment through salvage and they have a fully player run market (with the exception of certain items that is). Salvage mechanics are going to be a part of dust for the rest of the game and that is going to be the only way you can generate new officer's gear.

Is there a link that says officer weapons wont be available from salvage anymore?

Allowing anyone any modicum of control over the supply of officer weapons will break both game balance and the player economy.

Allowing anyone any modicum of control over the supply of officer weapons will break both game balance and the player economy.

Void, you jester, you certainly know how to keep the atmosphere light lol

once again ******* read it you illiterate elementary ******, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO EQQUIPED THEM.

To be fair I got bored after the first few paragraphs and just wrote an inflamitory reply based upon what you seemed to be implying. What is the point if you can't equip them? Just to hang them on your wall?

Also, you're still failing to address the core issue here that your assumption of officer's weapons being removed from salvage is flawed.

you obviously didn't read anything i posted.

Like I said I got bored after the first few paragraphs. Your writing was boring.

ah, so your a kid with a short attention span and an illiterate.