The topic is the question, provide your answer. Are you happy with the way BPOs work, or would you prefer that they operated differently, or maybe even not at all? Are there guidelines CCP should follow for them, or is anything free game? ANything you can think of in regards to BPOs, anything at all.


Personally, I dislike the idea that BPO are AURUM only, and that they are not EVE like. In EVE, a BPO just means that you won't lose the Blueprint, not that you have infinite copies of whatever is on the paper. You still need to pony up the components and labor costs. I'd be fine with DUST BPOs if they allowed you to buy copies of that item anywhere regardless of local market availability once the player market hits, but they would still cost a fair deal of ISK(or minerals if there ends up being some new DUST mineral/mining thingy, whatever happens), possibly the standardized prices we have now.

Also, nothing above Militia level modules if BPOs are kept at current functionality, Standard level stuff like the MAG tribute suits is already pushing it.

Personally I think we'd need a new set of resources, partially to keep large EVE alliances from owning DUST mercs with fleets of Hulks, and partially because it says in the description of Tritanium that the metal is useless within atmospheres and I'll be damned before I let CCP forget that :3.

I'm not mad about BPOs, I just think that having an infinite supply of something is a bad concept for the heavy risk-v-reward system EVE relies on to run its markets, and it will negatively impact Standard and Militia production.