Django Quik wrote:plaplapla wrote:if BPOs are bad so are starter fits
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.
The real problem is not BPO's, it is what you are choosing to focus on.
There is no economy, no marketplace, no industry, hardly even a link to EVE side.
Your point about starter fits is the same point I'm making about BPO's. When I need to be ISK efficient I have them, but I don't need to be at this point. And neither do the other 90% of the players who have been around since they were available.
The bigger issues and the ones you are overlooking IMO, are the lack of an economy. No player market/trading. ISK payouts from PC to pubs need to be overhauled(Including district locking). Lack of playerbase. No ISK generation outside of pubs/PC.
I would like to see the actual statistics from CCP's 'economist' showing the number of BPO's used and just how gamebreaking we were lead to believe this is. Count the number of BPO's that kill you, vs number of starter fits I guarantee that BPO's are significantly less.
BPO's are the easiest target because 1. CCP removed them and said they were 'gamebreaking' 2. In a game where ISK generation comes one of two ways and one way is 'locked' then you will look for the next easiest target. 3. Not everyone has them, creating the "but I am entitled to one too" concept.
I respect you think BPO's are gamebreaking, I just happen to whole-heartedly disagree with you. CCP cannot convince me otherwise until they release some form of actual statistics stating "Players are saving X amount of isk by running BPO's and hoarding Billions of ISK a week"....Because a much, much more game breaking feature currently is the PC district locking which is generation around to 2 billion a week (before your extortion payme...I mean tax) and that money resides in the corp wallets of maybe 8% of this game.
EDIT: Almost forgot about Scotty. Most if not all problems in Dust can be traced back to Scotty in some form. Until CCP manages to not put academy grads up against 2 full squads of 30+mil vets, we will always have QQ about imbalance. There are some matches where I feel like based on the team I'm on, we should be forced to melee kill with active scanners just to make it fair. But I digress....