Fox Gaden
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Posted - 2014.05.21 21:16:00 -
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Godin Thekiller wrote:What's the point of making suits BPO's, but everything else not? suits are being tiercided, so there's literraly no point in doing so imo. I need a valid explanation (and that whole "the suit is important" **** is not a valid argument. it's not the suit that's important, it's the ISK value, and the fit itself that's important). As far as I see it, it jsut takes away from manufacturing and the market. Peace, Godin 
To put this into perspective, Gobin, can you explain to me why our Clones are free in DUST, outside of PC?
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Fox Gaden
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Posted - 2014.05.23 15:19:00 -
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Godin Thekiller wrote:What's the point of making suits BPO's, but everything else not? suits are being tiercided, so there's literraly no point in doing so imo. I need a valid explanation (and that whole "the suit is important" **** is not a valid argument. it's not the suit that's important, it's the ISK value, and the fit itself that's important). As far as I see it, it jsut takes away from manufacturing and the market. Peace, Godin
I thought I would take the time today to give you a serious and thought out response.
(Also, sorry for misspelling your name earlier. I am dyslexic and transposed the letters GÇ£dGÇ¥ and GÇ£bGÇ¥ consistently for close to 30 years. It usually does not happen now, but ever so often it happens still. When I try to read your name at a glance it comes out as GÇ¥Goblin The KillerGÇ¥.)
Anyway, back on topic.
If I understand CCP ZGÇÖs reasoning correctly, he thinks that since your suit is the majority of what people see when they look at your character, he feels that it is the defining attribute of your identity. He felt that people who did not have large incomes in DUST were restricted to drab grey suits that did not allow them to express themselves.
Having the Dropsuit as a BPO and getting rid of Standard and Advanced suits means that everyone will have the extra slots of a proto suit. (I have been running mostly standard suits for the majority of my DUST career, so I like this change.) Now if someone wants to run a cheap fit, instead of running a Standard or Militia suit, they will just run Standard or Militia modules. They may even decide to leave slots empty to save ISK.
In this system your progression can be expressed with the suit you are able to ware, while you wealth will be expressed in the quality of weapon you chose to use. I assume there will still be Officer weapons.
I expect that we will all start with a Militia BPO suit. Dropsuit upgrades will mostly come from people scavenging/salvaging dropsuit BPOGÇÖs. When they get a BPO they donGÇÖt need they will sell it on the market. To upgrade our dropsuit we will have to both train the skill to use the suit, and acquiring the BPO, either from Salvage, the Market, the LP Store, or with AUR.
If the BPO is a 1 time purchase, it plays well into customised or unique suits that people may try to get to express their personality. People are more likely to spend AUR on a Red Dropsuit BPO than they are on 50 Red Dropsuits that they will quickly use up. Even if the BPO cost way more than the individual suits would have, it feels better psychologically to pay for something that is permanent.
If you want an RP explanation for why we donGÇÖt have to pay for our Dropsuits, I can come up with one. I am good at coming up with RP explanations for stuff.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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