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I just can't understand getting beat up over it. Never had much value in money, honestly, it's just little slips of paper to me. Wouldn't believe how much of the stuff I've wasted on food that I'm never getting back

See what I mean? They will just keep asking you to do stupid things to prove yourself....

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^^^ That person bought Aurum in Eve Online, a **** ton of it. $60 worth.

BPO's ruin the game because there's no ISK expenditure in their use. Wanna know an awesome side effect from that? Corp boosting. Just call in a few dozen/hundred BPO LAVs and farm the RDVs for War Points with a Forge Gun/Rail Gun. Nothing but net gain because no-one is losing a damn thing out of that situation at all.

Same thing applies to BPO dropsuits and weapons. Just sit there and farm matches with nothing but BPO gear and you lose literally nothing and ISK is spawned out of no-where, it's not like null-sec ratting where there's a potential for you to lose a ship it's PURE ISK GENERATION and nothing but. It's being spawned out of thin air with no risk to it at all and what's worse is they gave some of these damn things out for free (see 'Exile' Assault Rifle).

Aurum isn't supposed to be this "I paid money so I don't have to spend ISK ever again" aspect of the game, it should be an alternative - not a default. Worth is a hell of a lot more skewed when that starts happening and it's what has been happening. It works in a game like Battlefield or Call of Duty where the matches don't matter and nothing you ever do has a long-term impact but in Eve Online/Dust 514 it's a game changer simply because when we do get a player-to-player market system, no-one is going to give a rats ass about standard gear just because everyone has BPO's. The worth of them plummets instantly as opposed to this almighty 'aurum' which you apparently has a misinterpretation over.

It's called supply and demand, it's a basic concept of economics. If there is absolutely no demand for a certain level of gear (namely because people have it for free) than what is the point of going through all the trouble to make sure there's a supply? Any player that joins this game from here on out is jacked over because those BPO's aren't available to them simply because they were implemented to begin with and your argument is that Aurum is worthless without it? Get real dude.

Vanity items and alternative expenditure. If you don't have the skills for it, buy some aurum. Want a fancy color pack for your suit? Buy aurum. But it should never be "I don't want to spend in-game currency ever again and I'm just going to save up from here on it." There should be effort behind the ISK rewards and if you're seriously advocating against that you need to go play a different game.

Honest to god think that money shouldn't even exist in the real world. Currency is cool and all but it's too easy to abuse and fluctuate the value of through corruption. When you have something like the Federal Reserve which prints money out solely on the basis that the government ran out and needed more, there's an automatic debt included with every single unit. A dollar is printed out with debt attached - explain how that makes any damn sense.

I've been more in favor of a resource based economy (which is why I'm trying very very hard to get the hell out of America) where the currency - if any - actually has something to base it's value off of rather than... whatever the hell we feel like at the time.

S'why when I see these guys ranting and raving over four freaggin militia BPO's (MILITIA!!!) I can only scratch my head and raise a brow at just how silly people can be and what they'll fight over. I mean threatening legal action and potentially risking an entire company's livelihood - not to mention their families - for the sake of four god damn virtual items that aren't even going to be available on the ISK market? When you're getting refunded the aurum you spent on those items?

People are starving to death in the world and we've got people threatening class action lawsuits over items that aren't even real and won't be there when the game loses funding/support (incidentally BECAUSE of those lawsuits). That's the definition of first world problems, man.