lithkul devant
Ostrakon Agency
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.06.20 04:02:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:Can I ask very innocently and honestly, why? Is it just about making ISK? I never considered buying one myself and never use them even if I have them from multiple packs I have bought.
Just a couple of thoughts.
Which items would be the most sought after? I don't remember what BPO's used to be out there. Did we ever have BPO's for all the racial rifles etc?
Is there demand for higher level BPO's, maybe the Basic Heavy and Mediums, with no skill requirement, to get new players through the initial pain threshold?
Reasons why BPO's were/are valuable.
1. You did not have to constantly buy suits or certain modules, you could just play the game, if your suit died you didn't care as much.
2. The looks of the suits at times varied from the standard and had unique looks.
3. Yes some of this was about hedging the costs of suits, such as saving roughly 1-3k per suit or 600 isk per module.
4. Often times these suits are used for AV, mainly because trying to take on tanks or dropships is a very hazardous venture at the best of times.
5. BPO suits are awesome for people just starting the game and they don't know what they are doing. Because you can experiment with the suit and it has low skill req if any skill req at all, it was how I was able to play logi for a long time.
6. BPO LAVs saves you roughly 30k each time it is blown up either by a tank or timing out and just self destructing. Yeah I've seen LAVs just run out of time and suicide.
7. BPO weapons Slightly better then militia most times, great for just messing around with, especially when you don't want to care about dying, aka when you are being proto stomped into the ground.
In conclusion, yes it does have to deal with isk, because everything in this game deals with isk, but it is also about a fun factor and not having to worry or care about each death as much.
Also....as a side note can we please sell items/weapons we get from factional battles, got a ton of stuff I will never use or at least make it an option to be able to sell it back or trade to another player or something? |
lithkul devant
Ostrakon Agency
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.06.20 14:09:00 -
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Sole Fenychs wrote:VERY IMPORTANT:
LAV BPOs are a major balance concern, due to their effect on Jihad Jeeps.
The current exclusivity of LAV BPOs makes the game P2W in certain situations, because someone who's got the BPO (Which can't even be gotten anymore) can easily murder tanks without throwing away at least 40k ISK.
You might want to look into that. Maybe give everyone a really disposable LAV as BPO or something, to even the playing field.
That would require more balance consideration, though...
Jihad Jeeps happeend because tanks became ungodly, for example where they used to have 5-6 tanks in an ambush on one side and just literally slaughter everyone. The tanks would completely lock the airways except for LAVs which could be summoned enough and cheaply enough. So what you are complaining about is a reaction to a problem not a problem in itself. Either that or you didn't care about AV efforts and are a tanker and just want to slaughter everyone with an "I win button"
We used to have it where everyone did have a cheap unlimited LAV, this was during the days of murder taxis where people would just race around 1 shoting everyone that was not in a vehicle. This was taken away with a promise we would eventually have hover bikes I think for solo transport to get us from point A to B fast.
Also how do you feel about the fact that a tank that is worth 70k can 1 (rail tank) shot an infantry that is worth of 80-100k or more many times without having the infantry having a chance even when they are equiped with AV gear. |