So, my fellow nerds.

A simple question :

Would you pay Aurum in order to change the racial type of one of your existing BPO's? (IE: Change a Dragonfly Scout BPO to a Caldari suit instead of a gallente?)


Obvious Disclaimer : This is something I want to pitch to CCP but want to make sure people would buy it first. Not only this, but it's very possible that this would be very hard to implement and CCP may not have the time to do this anytime soon (if at all)

I'd prefer even more to pay to change my racial avatar and starting BPO suits. But yeah, would be neat to convert some of the prize stuff I don't use into something valuable.

I'm convinced though that the longterm solution here isn't as much to shuffle around existing assets as it is to fully convert our current BPO's into a skin that could be applied to consumable gear. Meaning if I've got a Dren BPO skin, than I use it to apply the unique color scheme to my medium suits that I use up in combat. This would preserve the value that players have around unique (and renewable) colored suits, while still addressing CCP's design problems with existing "bottomless" gear sources.

I paid for my BPOs and I would be perfectly fine if they were converted to cosmetic items. Getting beat up over paying for virtual assets is a pretty silly thing when all video games have an end-date. MAG just recently died for good, as a perfect example.

But yes, BPO's do have a major in-game impact on the economy. Sure, Standard/Militia stuff is dirt cheap and all but you're thinking short term, the single death. Assuming that I save 10,000 ISK per suit (a stretch at the standard/militia level), that doesn't sound like much on a battle-to-battle scenario but since I've been playing? I would have saved 63,830,000 ISK. That's a lot in Dust terms. I'm also not going to be losing any ISK from this point on and will continue to save ISK endlessly, it's riskless income.


This isn't to say that PC isn't a major contributor to economic impact but that's a strawman argument. They're separate issues. Just as well, this isn't to say that there shouldn't be compensation for any changes made but face it; people are going to ***** just by CCP even touching them at all. I'd much rather people get angry and quit the game for the sake of the game's overall health than let it fester at the game's expense.

And sure, T2 BPOs are a thing in Eve Online... but they're so rare... They're -insanely- hard to come by and when you do, the auctions are incredible. It's like Capital ships in high-sec it's so rare. I'm glad we're moving away from the BPO non-sense because it never should have existed in the first place, I never did agree with them; it's just people paying money so they can have a notable edge over those that didn't - same as the Boosters.

EDIT: Further more, T2 BPO's in Eve Online still have material costs. They still cost -SOMETHING-.

Every time T2 BPOs comes up and their effect on the market, it inevitably goes to how they're such an ISK faucet, control markets, etc.

The number of T2 BPOs in game is so low compared to the T2 market that, while they might be an ISK faucet, it's just a little drip. The amount of manufacturing you can do straight off a T2 BPO is much less than you could use it to make T2 BPCs, and that's still low compared to the T2 BPC manufacturing you can do through Invention.

Btw, pc locking has wrecked the economy far worse then the bpos ever will.