AUR items can't be "made" by players.
AUR items can ONLY be bought through the AUR market OR the player marketplace.
AUR items don't give players anything they can't get with ISK in the NPC marketplace.

In order to inject more AUR items into the market when they've been used and destroyed, someone has to give CCP more money.

As such, AUR items won't be unfair to the player market, instead they will be the basis on which the player market is driven.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at, OP.

AUR circumvents the player market in the same way that ISK can. Essentially you're saying that the NPC market will be unfair to the player market? I mean, ISK gear has a maximum price; you can't go over that because of the NPC market.

AUR and LP gear lets us actually use the player market. It's the only avenue, really, where fortunes can be made. I suppose BPOs fall into that category too, but they're in far shorter supply i.e. not theoretically infinite.

I think boosters will be the number 1 selling thing that every 1 wants. Maybe a 30 day booster for something like 50~80 mil ISK? Well some 1 will figure out AUR-ISK conversion rate.

I think that would be a problem if Aurum items had the same stats as their ISK counterparts. The fact is, since Aurum items can be used sooner, that will make them more expensive than their ISK variant and since everything will be based on ISK costs, only those who would benefit from the early access to the item would buy it. That is also a limiter. Once someone gets enough SP to use the ISK variant, they'll move on to the real one.

I get your point now.

Interesting concern.

You're forgetting about something.

If "Gill Bates" is playing DUST, he's going to need to make a name for himself. He can buy all the AUR gear he wants and use it to fight, no matter what he does, he's still limited to only one tier above his SP level. Even when he's high enough to use Proto AUR gear, and spend AUR instead of ISK to make a profit, he (as a smart and wealthy businessman) will realise there's a more effective way to earn ISK.

He can buy all that AUR gear and SELL IT TO OTHER PLAYERS instead of just using it for himself.

This will, of course, result in Mr Bates becoming a (potentially major) part of the player market. CCP makes a profit, DUST players get a new AUR gear mogul. Gill Bates gets in-game fame and fortune (mostly fortune). Everybody wins.

My point was the the only VALUE in bypassing the player market by using AUR is to make more ISK.

And there's a better, faster and more efficient method of doing that, which is to participate in the player market instead.

We are talking about dust ISK which is much harder to aquire then eve ISK. 50~80 mil can fund yourself at least a month of proto gear non stop. On a second though i think 3 day active boosters will be much better cause most of the active players can cap out in ~3 days. So buying 4X3 day boosters would probs be better. On the passive booster side however you cant really do that.

It seems like a lot of people don't understand your post.

My take; Yes, Aurum gear will negatively impact the player manufacturing market for exactly the reasons you specified: It's a bypass of the normal manufacturing channels. It's just a matter of HOW much it will affect the market. If it's only a small thing, then CCP will probably continue the pay-to-win nature of the Aurum market. If however it significantly disrupts the manufacturing economy, then I guess that aurum gear will go the way of EVE; boosters and vanity items.

That wasn't the logic behind the BPO removal though.

It's not "you bought this so you DIDN'T buy the ISK version" which is a problem.

It's "you bought this so you NEVER have to buy the ISK version EVER IN THE ENTIRE LIFESPAN OF YOUR CHARACTER" that becomes an issue.