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Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.24 04:38:00 -
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The Eristic wrote:Some of the prices being thrown around seem rather excessive if you do simple cost-benefit analysis. Now, I wouldn't mind having the full Templar set or LAV BPO, but I'll never run out of money regardless, and 50M+ for what is mostly Militia gear? Some of the named items will bring substantial money from the collectors, but I can't see the Mil Plate, for instance, bringing anything crazy. Yeah, I guess they might become significant when you have enough to build an entire fitting that you will actually run and you've gone broke from spamming proto/vehicles in pubs, but you might just as well run starter fits in most cases. Or, maybe if you die a lot. A LOT.
The issue with starter fits is that they limit your fittings a little more than the BPO suits. With starter fits, you're unable to remove the starter modules and that alone hinders your fitting flexibility and those extra modules aren't always useful anyways. With BPO fits on the other hand, you can go to town with whatever setup you like that optimizes the low-tier suit without being forced to leave in useless modules.
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Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.24 06:12:00 -
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Zeylon Rho wrote:I think about this when people talk about taking away BPOs from people that already have them. It's the only reason I spent money in the first place, and so getting something like AUR refund is insulting. Having them become limited-use also defeats the purpose/appeal they were originally billed under. I'd give up on the game at the point they decide to flush the items I gave them money for, especially when they sold them as "forever".
The problem now is that people like me that were only willing to pay for permanent items are no longer giving them money. Perhaps they'll eventually have some other kinds of permanent cosmetic items, like living quarters, etc.
Which is why I ever doubt they will remove any more BPOs from our inventory other than the four BPO vehicle modules that were removed as a result of A) the initial vehicle overhaul and B) becoming absolutely useless as a result of "A". Many of the those BPOs were bought directly with cash (no aurum required) such as the Templar BPOs, the Toxin weapons, and anything else that came prepackaged in a merc pack in the Sony store. Taking those BPOs away from our inventory will no doubt equal one massive legal headache for CCP that is so big that CCP won't be able to sleep at night anymore if they do that.
As for cosmetic items, I have an idea.
CCP should let us:
A) Allow Dust players access to the Eve Online 'Noble Exchange' (NeX) store.
B) Have Dust players get eve-style avatars so that we could dress them up using the AUR items available in the NeX store.
C) Let us pimp our merc quarters for once (cough)stripperpole(cough).
D) A permanent paint bucket system.
Dedicated Scout // Ninja Knifer
Everything I know about the Caldari I learned at Nouvelle Rouvenor
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Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.24 06:13:00 -
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COVERT SUBTERFUGE wrote:BPO dropsuit....free
BPO L.A.V...free
BPO rifle...free
2x RE...8,000
Taking out half a million ISK worth of tank scrubbery for less than 10K?
PRICELESS!
For everything else there's Master Card.
Dedicated Scout // Ninja Knifer
Everything I know about the Caldari I learned at Nouvelle Rouvenor
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Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.24 07:42:00 -
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low genius wrote:Christiphoros von Poe wrote:Skinweaves are a sort of status marker. It proves that you are a closed beta vet... But not that anyone cares.  I didn't realize that. they stopped giving them out?
OOOOOHHhh a long time ago back during closed beta.
They were actually just event rewards as part of a stress test for the Singularity test server.
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Everything I know about the Caldari I learned at Nouvelle Rouvenor
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Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.24 18:55:00 -
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One more thing to note about the advantages of BPOs over starter fits. The starter fits have no high-slots slots for Gallente at least (not sure about the other races). BPOs have all the slots they need regardless of race.
Dedicated Scout // Ninja Knifer
Everything I know about the Caldari I learned at Nouvelle Rouvenor
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Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.24 19:53:00 -
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Fox Gaden wrote:Maken Tosch wrote:The Eristic wrote:Some of the prices being thrown around seem rather excessive if you do simple cost-benefit analysis. Now, I wouldn't mind having the full Templar set or LAV BPO, but I'll never run out of money regardless, and 50M+ for what is mostly Militia gear? Some of the named items will bring substantial money from the collectors, but I can't see the Mil Plate, for instance, bringing anything crazy. Yeah, I guess they might become significant when you have enough to build an entire fitting that you will actually run and you've gone broke from spamming proto/vehicles in pubs, but you might just as well run starter fits in most cases. Or, maybe if you die a lot. A LOT. The issue with starter fits is that they limit your fittings a little more than the BPO suits. With starter fits, you're unable to remove the starter modules and that alone hinders your fitting flexibility and those extra modules aren't always useful anyways. With BPO fits on the other hand, you can go to town with whatever setup you like that optimizes the low-tier suit without being forced to leave in useless modules. You can make a Duplicat of a Starter Fit, and remove a Yellow module from the duplicate, if there is a module on the Starter Fit that you donGÇÖt want.
They are still useless to me as starter fits if I can't fit any high-slot modules.
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Everything I know about the Caldari I learned at Nouvelle Rouvenor
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