Why is there no proto bpo's? I'm tired of getting crushed just because I don't have time to sit around my house evryday and farm sp. I work on the road for weeks at a time and every time I come home and turn on the game I am less competitive. At this point I can barely kill anyone and I'm pretty sure my drop suit is made out of a trash bag and some styrofoam cups. It costs one milliondy gilliondy sp to go proto and at this rate it will take me 3 years to have a competive rig.

If you're away for weeks at a time you should come back to some nice passive xp no?

Hypothetical prototype BPOs would still require a massive SP investment, meaning they would still be out of your reach. Meanwhile, the guys who are currently running Proto gear wouldn't have to worry about their wallets anymore and you'd be getting crushed harder and more often.

Why is there no proto bpo's? I'm tired of getting crushed just because I don't have time to sit around my house evryday and farm sp. I work on the road for weeks at a time and every time I come home and turn on the game I am less competitive. At this point I can barely kill anyone and I'm pretty sure my drop suit is made out of a trash bag and some styrofoam cups. It costs one milliondy gilliondy sp to go proto and at this rate it will take me 3 years to have a competive rig.

Yeah I had about 600,000 this time. I bought some peanut brittle and a soda pop.

Never going to happen. Adding proto-level BPOs has a negative downside.

The economy.

CCP has a 5-year plan that includes implementing a player-controlled secondary market exactly like that of the Eve Online secondary market in which players will buy/sell anything that they produced out of their own hard work. BPOs for proto-level equipment will undermine that effort and potentially harm the economy by taking away any incentive to purchase more gear which is what manufacturers like the Eve Online players rely on for sustained profit. Which brings me to my next point.

CCP hinted or implied that they plan on letting Eve Online players do the manufacturing of the Dust gear while possibly letting Dust players gather the needed resources for production. Implementing a BPO for prototype items will undermine that effort for the same reason I mentioned above (taking away the incentive to purchase more gear) and as a result the operation of producing such gear will collapse because the demand diminishes as more players stock up on proto-level BPOs.

The same can be said for advanced-level and standard-level BPOs. This is why you only see militia-level BPOs.

@Balzich

I suggest holding off on spending your SP on the nanite injectors until CCP fixes them. Right now they only work half of the time. I wouldn't want you to go wasting your SP on something that won't help. Consider yourself warned.

@Balzich

I suggest holding off on spending your SP on the nanite injectors until CCP fixes them. Right now they only work half of the time. I wouldn't want you to go wasting your SP on something that won't help. Consider yourself warned.

Never going to happen. Adding proto-level BPOs has a negative downside.

The economy.

CCP has a 5-year plan that includes implementing a player-controlled secondary market exactly like that of the Eve Online secondary market in which players will buy/sell anything that they produced out of their own hard work. BPOs for proto-level equipment will undermine that effort and potentially harm the economy by taking away any incentive to purchase more gear which is what manufacturers like the Eve Online players rely on for sustained profit. Which brings me to my next point.

CCP hinted or implied that they plan on letting Eve Online players do the manufacturing of the Dust gear while possibly letting Dust players gather the needed resources for production. Implementing a BPO for prototype items will undermine that effort for the same reason I mentioned above (taking away the incentive to purchase more gear) and as a result the operation of producing such gear will collapse because the demand diminishes as more players stock up on proto-level BPOs.

The same can be said for advanced-level and standard-level BPOs. This is why you only see militia-level BPOs.

Proto bpos would make proto stomping worse, not better. I have a feeling you don't know the proper terminology to use. At best, you can use Autumn variant gear to use proto lvl gear with ADV lvl sp.