Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2014.05.07 12:25:00 -
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"CCP does NOT make the prices for the player market"
Not quite true. CCP controls the abundance of an item or, how much effort it takes to aquire. In Eve this means they can set the initial price for a new manufactured item by using the current market value of the inputs and using that to set a floor. Once the market for that item is working efficiently, the price will be slightly higher than the floor. For non-manufactured items they directly control the supply which means they control the price.
The whole point people complaining about BPO suits are trying to make is that death won't have risk if their suit is free. The common items and modules will probably be fairly inexpensive, but the better modules will be more expensive and death will still hurt if you're using your higher tier gear. They're just reacting to news of a change without thinking about it first. |
Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2014.05.07 13:46:00 -
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What Musta said. If you go all the way to the right side of the progression tree and use one of the 32 highly specialized suits then you're inflating your meta level, which may not be what you want. The more advanced suits will also have, I imagine, more module slots. That would also make them more expensive to use and give low level suits a purpose.
The current pricing system for proto suits is just dumb. I have 35 million SP now and I rarely ever use proto suits, despite the fact that I've been able to use them for over a year. Why? Because I'm not part of the PC farming blue doughnut, which means isk actually means something to me. For me having more isk at the end of the night than I started with is kind of important, and even advanced suits barely make any isk even though I typically wind up in the top 3 for my team. When you have a game where your dropsuit is your identity, this is bad. If the PC game mode didn't exist hardly anyone would be using proto suits because nobody would have the isk for them, aside from the few beta vets who haven't burned their salvage refund isk bonus yet.
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