BPO's were fixed when they removed them from the market.

Please note that it is CCP's position that BPOs are economy breaking, so it is irrelevant if you disagree - instead of arguing about there not being a problem, let's talk about the idea below and how it could further this game.

It's been said by CCP and others many times that BPOs break the game economy because they provide a free unlimited supply of items (albeit low value ones but the value is irrelevant in the big picture anyway). However, BPOs are an intrisic part of the New Eden universe and could continue to be a fantastic way for CCP to bring in revenue.

The following idea does not vary hugely from the current/old situation and potentially could be implemented in time for fanfest (depending on what is already lined up for dev sprints over the next few months):

1) Create BPOs for every single item in the game (excluding officer salvage)
2) Make them cost many millions of isk / lots of aurum
3) BPOs no longer provide free unlimited items but players get the BPO'd items for much cheaper than the BPC market value
4) BPCs are still available from the main market at current prices (or increased prices, whatever)

The next step would be to provide players with the ability to purchase manufacturing materials from NPC (and later Eve) mining corps, which would be required to create items from BPO plans.

This would restore BPOs to useful items both to players and CCP without breaking the economy or future possibilities of the player market; in fact it would provide a starting platform for both manufacturing and the player market as well as fitting in well with the way BPOs and BPCs have worked in Eve for years.

Some caveats to control the effect of BPOs on the current game economy could be:
- Militia BPOs cost up to 10 million isk each
- Standard BPOs cost up to 50 million isk each
- Advanced BPOs cost up to 100 million isk each
- Proto BPOs are extremely rare salvage only (say 0.01% chance)

Up to Advanced BPOs could have a 0.1% salvage chance.

A new BPO section could be added to the marketplace with up to Advanced BPOs available for aurum of similar values to what they were before they were removed from the market.

The price of items created from BPOs could be 1/2 of the market price making them long term investments, so players buying them would feel like they have to keep playing to get the full value of what they have bought.

In the future, when we have a player market, manufacturing time and materials cost could be added, so that players can't just quickly flood the market with cheap gear and undermine the economy.

Agreed but starter fits serve a purpose - they are there for when you have no isk/are new.

A way to negate this small bump in the problem is to only allow the use of starter fits below a certain isk and/or SP threshold.

That way new and poor players would still have a fall back without free unlimited gear impacting on the economy in any way.

They are debating an aurum purchase that will allow you switch races with BPO suits, turning your dren scout into caldari for example. No dice on the RR BPO tho

People who complain about BPOs but ignore multi million ISK generating districts which are constantly locked down by huge mega corps are a cancer on this game. In fact, I hope they get cancer.

I have BPOs and if you read the thread, you'd know that.

And for the record, I have no said anything about taking away BPOs from anyone. CCP may well choose to leave those as they are, since as some people have rightly already pointed out, they will slowly dwindle in number as the vets who own them disappear under a sea of blueberries.

My proposal, before you tried to insult and offend large numbers of people and derail the thread, could easily be implemented on top of what currently exists within the game, whilst extending and developing it for the future and greater good.

I don't care if they get rid of all the BPOs. Also I don't think that BPOs are hurting the economy that badly. More Importantly whats hurting the economy is buying NPC BPCs. Should just let the EVE pilots make the BPCs and tehn sell em to us. Wouldn't be implemented today but it wouldn't take that long. Better economy better DUST/EVE integration

I wasn't trying to derail the thread. I was responding to a post you made where you said an Aurum refund was a perfectly acceptable compensation to losing a BPO. I disagree.

I also said that I like your idea for "future" BPO's and would be willing to support CCP in that regard. CCP has to find a way to monetize Dust 514, and bringing back BPO's in one way or another would be a great way of doing that (as long as they don't change already existing BPO's).

The truth is BPO's sell. Alternative color schemes sell. small unique fittings (even if they are crap fittings) sell. Anything cosmetic sells. Anything that allows player initiative and meta gaming (like manufacturing your own stuff) sells. So I support a new type of BPO.

Untill you fix the " district bpo" people locking districts an collecting billions of free isk everyday an players doing one sided pc making millions everyday, don't even purpose we fix bpos first