Dren is nerd spelled backwards btw.

Why do you want BPOs for everything? That's not really the point of dust.

I like the cosmetic aspects, and STD level stuff isn't unbalancing. I figure the people that are shelling out for this sort of stuff are basically funding the game as well. So, every time you see someone splurge on a STD-level suit that's basically a different color you can think.. "Ah... this person is supporting the development." It's a good thing, basically. To play competitively (like on the PC level), the STD BPOs won't cut it anyhow.

I find it odd that they haven't chosen to showcase any of the new equipment. If you DO care about cosmetics, you have no options within the new variants.

How many funky colors and patterns can you have for a Caldari Assault suit now? Quite a few. There's a ton of new classes/variants that haven't had that treatment though. There's a crapload of people who never played MAG that would like to see some interesting suits, and would pay money for them.

It's a contrast from the regular whining threads I think. We ALL want some things fixed, right? Well, separate from that, this is a communication that, "hey, we'd like to give you money for these things... why no make them?" Which I'd think from a profit and paycheck perspective, is a matter that would interest them.

BPOs are currently "pay to opt out from economic warfare". In the New Eden universe, that's about as close to P2W as gold ammo.

While it's not entirely meaningful at the moment -- since there isn't really an economy -- as soon as players can start producing items, the advantage of BPO items is going to become really jarring. Standard items with BPO equivalents will become worthless unless BPOs are either: converted into production tools (and thus gain a cost), or, as is more likely, converted into custom paint jobs you can apply to suits (these you can't lose, but it's just a paint job so NBD).

I don't agree... there are BPOs in EVE and the universe hasn't imploded.

These things are standard level gear and I don' t think it would be right to change them retroactively after people spent money on them. Oh, the QQing we would see!

I'd imagine that higher levels of gear may come along that makes them less valuable in the longer term

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I guess they could refund AUR or something... but you'd have to do something if you changed the item retroactively or every idiot with a mommy for a lawyer would be spamming the forums for a month.

Now, "tranferring" the BPO to somebody in EVE to manufacture your suits for you, that's would be alright.

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Current Vanity BPOs turning to color schemes appliable to say, fittings sounds much more reasonable than the overflow of AUR BPO variants we have now. Though i haven't heard anything from CCP regarding this issue for a while now. Are they still comitted to change this?

Why do you want BPOs for everything? That's not really the point of dust.