BPO's as you know them will not be transferred or maybe not in the new game at all. They're trying to run on the EVE Economy and BPO's just completely break it. If you want to keep your BPO's the only solution I see that will be coming is that you'll have to manufacture them yourself.

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I'll keep my name and maybe a little badge or something to show that I was from Dust 514 but it would make the game highly unbalanced if we transfer SP and ISK. This is a new game using IDEAS from Dust and lessons learned from Dust. This is not a port people.

There is also different secs in the game where they can't attack you if you are a noob.

BPOs *as used in Dust* break the EvE economy. But BPOs themselves don't. EvE uses BPOs and BPCs (blueprint copies with limited runs) to manufacture items which can be bought for ISK. We actually need BPOs if we are going to be able to have unlimited numbers of anything. And we need the ISK to buy the materials and manufacturing time to make them, so we should not be so ready to give up our ISK, either.

I think there's a place for BPO style suits - Militia level suits with Militia level equipment that doesn't run out, similar to the clothing items we have in EvE, where likewise, once bought we don't lose them. But anything better than that should be bought for ISK and made from BPs (either Originals or Copies).

I'll keep my name and maybe a little badge or something to show that I was from Dust 514 but it would make the game highly unbalanced if we transfer SP and ISK. This is a new game using IDEAS from Dust and lessons learned from Dust. This is not a port people.

No. You won't be able to CREATE skill points, only buy them from someone who's already earnt them. Yes, you will be able to buy skill points from other people but they will lose those skill points in the process. Not quite what you're indicating here.

You will keep your name and that will be it.

You will be lucky to keep your AUR and any BPOs you have and all that AUR spent on boosters has been lost and used in vain.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with bringing everything you have into the new game! So it instantly causes problems for new players, how is that any different from the existing Dust, or EvE for that matter?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with keeping absolutely everything you have and porting across to the new game, in totum. That can be done and it's completely viable, with just a new front end running on PC.

What I really don't want to see, though is just another lobby shooter, like Dust has become. As part of the EvE universe, Dust on PC (DoPC) should be a sandbox, like EvE, were battles aren't scheduled, don't start and finish according to some sort of rules, are part of the EvE war system where appropriate, and otherwise, just generally part of the PvP world of EvE. Battles should EXIST wherever and whenever two or more players decide to duke it out, and there should be the scope for more people to arrive on either side to make it as even or as one-sided as those people want. This is what EvE is about, not the stylised battles of Dust.

Wherever possible EVERYTHING should and could be transferred across, just retaining the old database and building a new front end. Perhaps initially, it could stay in the JALS (Just Another Lobby Shooter) format before moving to a proper sandbox DoPC. But everything could and should transfer across.

I'll agree that it's a weird edge-case as far as this goes, but the post from CCP made it pretty clear that the new game will be like Dust but not actually Dust. If it were a more straight-forward 'Dust514 is being ported to PS4' then yea, I'd say that a full transfer would be appropriate. But I think CCP have realized how badly they messed up the economy and have deliberately avoided stating that they're continuing Dust on PC so they have a chance to start fresh.

You paid for items in Dust, but now Dust is over. In a while there'll be a new New Eden FPS, but it's not Dust.

Exactly.

EVERYTHING can be kept, if CCP wants to. Creating a brand new database is a helluva lot harder than just using the existing one with a new front end for DoPC. New functionality is the only reason they would change anything, and that can be done as part of the transition process, or even after the new system is implemented.

But!

That misses the entire point of the EvE universe where absolutely anything can happen. In EvE PvP (sorry for the oxymoron), people can and do take on others of completely different capabilities, and sometimes that works out differently from what you'd expect. If a noob takes on a vet, most likely that noob will come off second best. If a vet takes on a noob in hisec, the vet will come off second best because of violation of the hisec rules. In losec or nullsec, ANYTHING goes. In hisec, noobs are relatively protected. It won't mean that you can't be attacked, only that your attacker will definitely lose a ship.

It's a different world from the one that most Dusters are used to. It's a better world than what Dust has become, with a lot more opportunities.