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Malkai Inos Opus Arcana Orion Empire 425	Posted - 2013.06.23 02:59:00 - [1] - Quote BPOs should simply be "color scheme modules" that you fit to otherwise normally purchased (and later, manuactured) suits as you wish. This circumvents all impact on economy and industry once those arrive and would allow for those fancy colors to be used on ADV and PRO suits/gear aswell. Ideally there should be nothing gameplay relevant at all that can simply come out of thin air. That's just not how New Eden works for the most part.
Malkai Inos Opus Arcana Orion Empire 427	Posted - 2013.06.23 03:40:00 - [2] - Quote EternalRMG wrote: You cant apply the same BPO mechanics of EVE in Dust why? Because we gather no minerals, we cant sell anything, we cant explore anything, we can only do one thing Kill Eachother. In dust we die everytime we play, we die really often, In eve you if youre stupid or go to 0.0 with tier 1 ships (and not prepared) In dust BPOs have to be unlimited otherwise they would be plain stupid In EVE the have to have a cost otherwise it would be stupid and the market would be flooded with BPC for a insanely cheap price I'm not shure how helpful this is but, assuming a plex price (20$ from CCP) of 530m ISK (reasonably close to the current jita price), a basic STD suit (6k ISK) would break even after about 40k odd uses and since specialized suits, for whatever reason, are approx. halve that this number gets even more rediculous for them. This means that, for all intends and purposes, BPOs are not worth their money unless you plan to play for the better part of decade and that from a financial standpoint they are already "stupid". CCP can and should implement EVE/Dust trading reasonably soon and when that happens people are bound to realize that BPOs are both uneconomic for most mercs and not more than a potential problem for industrialists. That's why I believe that actual BPOs should behave just like in EVE with production times and ISK/resource cost and that the current incarnation of BPOs are not justifiable in the long run. Let's not forget that it should be easy for CCP to take the current ISK prices of all gear as a base and set the resource and production costs appropriately to allow the economy to undercut these prices so that we all get more stuff for our iskies. The prospect of EVE and Dust forming one coherent economy is one of the USPs of Dust 514 and CCP should really aim to do this right on the first time as to not damage the existing EVE economy. As for refunds. Yes, this has to be figured out but if my above calculation is correct current BPOs are really not as valuable as their unlimited nature suggests so we could figure something out.

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