With regards to the following, I cannot complain, since I purchased mine on the cheap. And this post is probably too quick since it is based on an assumption that BPO prices are going to be lowered in Uprising (that's my expectation). But here goes anyway. Some people have purchased, for example, blueprints for 19,800 AUR (or whatever it is), thinking along the lines "it's quite expensive, but I do use it a lot. I can afford maybe one bpo, so I'll make it the dropsuit".

Now suppose that the price is permanently lowered by half in Uprising, when not on sale. This person is refunded around 10k AUR. Now, post patch, this person finds that in CCP's pursuit of finding that sweet spot pricing, he's paid twice the real world money for the same item as others (or alternatively, they get two for the price of one). That is their reward for trusting the pricing structure, and supporting the game during beta. I don't imagine these people will be happy.

Of course, as I said, this is based on the assumption that prices go down. And again, I can't complain much, as I paid the cheap price. And I understand the reasoning. The customer agreed on a price with CCP, and received goods. CCP is now giving them a currency which allows them to get exactly that item back, or use the AUR for something different (added value!). And if any AUR prices go up, you can't reimburse them the pre-patch prices, because then they won't receive enough AUR to replace their goods. So post patch pricing makes the most sense from this perspective.

So I see the reasoning, and I can't complain, but I suspect some will be unhappy if I am right about a significant BPO price drop (and as a guess, I wouldn't be surprised if you divide BPO costs by 10!). It seems a bit rough for that crowd that purchased these expensive BPO's, and now finds that their reward for beta support is to have others given a cheaper price. But we shall see, after Monday, I suppose.

Edit: If this is something to worry about, I suppose the solution would have been to reimburse at pre-patch prices if they are higher, or post patch prices if those are higher. But perhaps that is rather generous, and I am not completely unbiased!

CCP Eterne, can you confirm that all instances of militia BPOs that a player owns will be refunded at current market prices? Because it would be very dissapointing if that was the case.

Making ISK from market opportunities that arise in Eve/Dust is all fine and good. But giving out AUR worth thousands of real life $$ to players just because they bought a stack of militia BPOs for the price of a single merc-pack in January definitely crosses a line.

I really hope CCP considered that when making their plans for refunding items. Imho, there is no point in refunding more than one BPO of each type, since a player can't use more than one anyway. All extra BPOs were bought clearly with the intent of never using them, so why refund them because of the skill change?

I just did a quick calculation and for a Proto logi in current build in the Uprising build will need at least 13,991,400 sp now that is with proto hives/injector, proto rep tool, up to the dropsuit armor upgrades and dropsuit electronics and engineering lvl 5 and dropsuit Shield lvl 5 and 1 weapon of operation to lvl 5 (this assumes all skills before these final skills are also lvl 5) , 14,613,240 with explosives at lvl 5 without even touching the demolitions and grenadier skills

And there is the difference that similar opportunities in EVE arise out of the actions of other players on the in-game market, triggered by the changes made to the game. In this case however, it is a direct intervention by CCP. And they would be generating millions of AUR out of thin air, as opposed to EVE where every plex you buy on the market was paid in cash by another player (not to mention that there is no ISK to AUR transfer in DUST yet).