Eve corp is making the infinite isk happen.

This is very true, insanely wealthy EVE sugar dadies.

But presumably, the EVE corp wants something that they are using us to get and we, ofc, are fighting to make ISK. So a full campaign in proto gear is going to cost our employers a pretty penny, and will push back by a considerable amount the date by which their ROI is positive.

Corps that can produce results without wall-to-wall protospam will be in very high demand.

And as far as players running exclusively proto in you infinite everything scenario, yes there will be proto Assaults, Proto Logis, Proto Sentinels, Proto Commandos, Proto Scouts. With an incredible variety of fittings adapted to an incredible variety of roles.

This is very true, insanely wealthy EVE sugar dadies.

But presumably, the EVE corp wants something that they are using us to get and we, ofc, are fighting to make ISK. So a full campaign in proto gear is going to cost our employers a pretty penny, and will push back by a considerable amount the date by which their ROI is positive.

Corps that can produce results without wall-to-wall protospam will be in very high demand.

And as far as players running exclusively proto in you infinite everything scenario, yes there will be proto Assaults, Proto Logis, Proto Sentinels, Proto Commandos, Proto Scouts. With an incredible variety of fittings adapted to an incredible variety of roles.

Another fantasy to break is how cheap your suits would be if they where player provided.

we're talking 10 isk, not 10 hundred, 10 thousand or million; just 10 a pop. Unpopular ones will dip further and may become refine fodder; the specialists would likely gain most popularity capping at 1k a piece.

Another fantasy to break is how cheap your suits would be if they where player provided.

we're talking 10 isk, not 10 hundred, 10 thousand or million; just 10 a pop. Unpopular ones will dip further and may become refine fodder; the specialists would likely gain most popularity capping at 1k a piece.

And here i thought the refine value if a suit would be determined by it's mineral inputs.

Maybe you got a nice perpetual motion machine you wanna try and sell us while you're at it?

When you look at the fairly small mineral amounts a frigate takes, and realise that it costs 100-200 thousand isk for a T1 hull, then scale down to a single dropsuit, Iron Wolf Saber's estimate of how little they'd cost may actually be on the high side. Most likely, a Blueprint in eve wouldn't be able to make less than 100 or possibly 1000 (or maybe more) dropsuits due to the small mineral costs per suit.

What kind of minerals are dropsuits made from though? Keeping in mind that tritanium is not stable in atmospheric conditions.

These dropsuits could be made of pure morphite or zydrine for all we know... that would certainly cost a pretty penny...

Not in the quantities we're talking. Morphite is currently selling at roughly 5000 isk per unit and Zydrine at around 500 isk per unit (and these are eve isk, not dust isk) a T1 frigate takes roughly 2-20 zydrine and no Morphite. Morphite starts getting used for T2 ships and a T2 frigate doesn't take more than about 50 units of Morphite. Scale that down to dropsuits and one dropsuit would take a small fraction of a single unit of each. Even if it was pure Morphite, A dropsuit would not cost more than a couple of isk.

And here i thought the refine value if a suit would be determined by it's mineral inputs.

Maybe you got a nice perpetual motion machine you wanna try and sell us while you're at it?

Suppliers always keep a stock of an item, if an item becomes too unpopular, the supplier/producer will refine the spares to make room for the new popular item.

That doesn't answer the hypothetical which is regardless a highly possible situation without the artificiality.

Infinite isk

and more SP than that suit can ever use in any type of situation

Justify not using prototype.

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There is no good solution to the BPO dilemma that tiericide would create.

1: tech levels aren't the same as tiers. and by saying what you just said, you made the tier system sound even worse; we have both the tech levels, which gets better as you go up, and then there is tiers, which gets better as you go up, so a PROTO tech 2 (say a Assault), is much more superior than a STD medium. This just closes the gap. Also, although it is true that for the same role, a tech 2 is better than a tech 1, that doesn't mean that it's overall better.

2: Your solutions for thing could just as easily go a opposite way and be actually good. For instance, your idea with AUR things. look at League of Legends. You can buy the same legend with a different skins. People Do that. A lot. All CCP has to do is make a lot of neat skins, or even sell us the ability to make our own skins, which they could turn into BPO's. Speaking of BPO's, all they would have to do is turn the BPO's into whatever the original item was equivalent (say the Dragonfly Scout G-I into the Dragonfly Scout G-whatever), and then turn it into a EVE style BPO, where we would just buy the materials off the market, put it into a production line, and make the items.

3: Although you're right about the last two points, they don't cover the full effect of why a lot of people, including most if not all of the current CPM doesn't like it. I can't speak for everyone, but I'll explain why both of those are not completely right:

For the NPE one, you discuss PROTO stomping. PROTO stomping doesn't have to be just against noobs. say one guy doesn't feel like using PROTO gear or is saving up because he doesn't have a ISK farm. Then comes the douche who only runs PROTO gear. They face off, and even though the guy in the STD gear might be better, he lost due to the worse gear. That is not fair, and shouldn't happen. Under a tiercide dust, the guy might have won.

For the economy one, as I said, the ISK farm people won't give a single ****. They got ISK to burn, so losing a truck load or two in a match doesn't matter to them, as they know they will never run out.