when your suit gets trampled by a vk.0 come talk to us. There are better dropsuits than the BPOs that cost ISK and should stay that way. That way, BPOs can die risk free at the cost being at odds to those who expended an unreal yet more valuable asset in the game. Kind of weird but it works out.

The point of the BPO just like in EVE is you pay more upfront for it but then it lasts forever.

You can also save ISK by using AUR for other single use suits as well. Thereby giving you an ISK advantage. Is this pay to win too? Your still using real money to help cost you less ISK in game.

There is a lot to read and I have to admit I got bored. I understand the OP's point of view though that the BPO should have some cost attached to it. Just because you own a blueprint doesn't mean it doesn't cost ISK to build one. I think a reduced cost would suffice. 25 to 50% of its equal grade dropsuit considering all you need are materials and fabrication costs.

You pay to manufacture a BPO which is used to make BPCs with various amounts of runs specified at time of creation. The BPCs are then used to run off the actual product. BPOs, as far as I remember, aren't used to make the final product. Mind you that manufacturing and production will be entirely Eve side. It's infinitesimal to the Nth degree that resource gathering, processing, and manufacturing will ever appear in Dust.

Also, if you think saving ISK with a BPO is game breaking, then you should be of the opinion that all positive ISK gains are game breaking. In the end, it's not how much ISK or gear you have, it's how you use it to win or loose.

And yes, Eve players are LMAOing at this.

If you are still using a type 1 suit after a year, then you will probably be getting pummeled and need it to be infinite in order to make up for the deaths you have. The type 1 suit is a cheap, baseline hold over until you can unlock the type A. It's functionable, it's workable, but in order to use any serious gear on it you need to upgrade to a better suit. If you could fully outfit a type 1 with complex plates, GEK or above, decent 'nades, an injector or hive, a sidearm, and advanced damage mods or shield extenders then I would agree, but as it is you have to be careful how you fit it no matter how high you get your engineering and electronics skills. Since using it keeps you behind the curb on modules and gear, there is no reason it shouldn't be free to use indefinitely. By using it you are putting yourself at a disadvantage, perhaps not at first, but definitely down the road, and that is payment enough for having a "free" fit you bought with real money. Dwindling relevance and reliability.

Honestly, with either Militia OR Standard gear, there's minimal risk whether you're running blueprints or ISK-per-spawn versions. There's also a lot less reward to using blueprints vs. replaceable items.

I have two characters with identical fittings except for one factor - one of my characters has a Dragonfly Scout suit, and the other runs the fitting with an ISK-per-use Standard Scout Dropsuit (identical stats to the Dragonfly).

With almost identical relevant skills, and almost identical performance in a match, the suit where I'm paying ISK for every death typically earns me more - both in terms of SP and ISK. There's apparently a modifier applied based on the value of the gear you're bringing into the battle, and blueprints, due to their permanent nature, are treated as 0 cost, meaning a reduction in the value of your post-match rewards.

EDIT: Note that I'm phasing out my use of the term "BPO" in favour of "blueprint" since DUST doesn't seem to use the "blueprint copy" and "blueprint original" mechanics of EVE, and the in-game tutorials refer to permanent items as "blueprints" and not BPOs.