Yes. All consumed boosters stay consumed and unchanged :)

I am not happy about this. I have over 120 days of injected boosters (which I have not already gained any SP from) that will apparently not be refunded. Why on earth would I want 50% booster when you now have 100% boosters?. Yes I can buy the new Omega boosters and they will be added to the front of the queue, but this means that the 120 days worth of boosters already injected will NEVER be used!!!!!

The only way to use the booster I already have is to actually gain less SP for three months?????? Seriously, WTF???

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.

It means the prices at the time of deployment. If we have changed any prices, those will be the prices used.

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.

Now I'm confused. I.e. the Balac's GAR-21 AR is an officer weapon and will be returned to our inventory. due to QA while the Dev Blog states that all ISK-items will be removed and the excel-sheet in the link clearly shows an ISK-value of 126.495 for the Balac.

So my question is: will officer weapons be purchaseable? Dev Blog and spread sheet say yes but QA says no.

It means the prices at the time of deployment. If we have changed any prices, those will be the prices used.

My personal policy is to never buy or inject more than a month's worth of anything when a game is in beta just to avoid these kinds of issues.

It means the prices at the time of deployment. If we have changed any prices, those will be the prices used.

After buying a booster, it cannot be traded, it cannot be sold, it can't be used for anything other than being injected. Much the same as the days remaining in the implant queue, they can't be traded or sold. There was absolutely no difference in keeping that time in one form vs another, other than convenience if I happened to forget to inject a new booster after the old one expired. Until now...

Now I am told that one form will be refunded and the other one will not. At least in eve it gives you a warning telling you that, once you inject a booster, it cannot be removed without destroying it.

No type of boosters will be refunded, not the ones in your assets and not the ones already injected (it's stated in the Dev blog). No reason to be upset, we all have to use up the boosters that we already bought.

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

Sounds like plain pure envy.
Note that AUR is not real life cash. It is virtual currency bought with real life cash. Thru AUR and PLEX isk is also a virtual currency bought with real life cash.

Are you expecting prices to stay the same forever and ever?
It is natural that one year ago something costed more, now half of it. In a year it might be a quarter.

One could argue that the one who got it year ago has gotten to use it already for that time.

CCP to only allow MERC PACK resets for prior purchases before Jan. What about all the 20k vouchers?
I have a feeling there will be a LOT of pissed off players tomorrow.
I don't think im willing to invest 2 more months just to unlock the one suit I use. FK THAT! 14mill sp.
The 11mill sp I have now wont even unlock it.
I guess we will know tomorrow. It was nice knowing you guys!

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).