EVE General Discussion

You know, do your homework if you're going to post.

There were a few BPO's given out before the lottery was disabled. You're looking at something to the tune of once a month, for about a year. Most of the ones that won the BPOs won by chance (i.e. "fairly"), but then Reddit revealed that one of the winners was a personal friend of a dev and got a Miner II BPO as a gift instead of random dice roll.

So the question was, why punish those who got it fairly just because one person cheated.

Now you're full of envy for the 11 or so people who managed to get BPOs, and we've tried to explain to you that the invention system has made BPO's obsolete, but you're not dropping it.

There is no precedent of CCP forcefully removing non-exploit items out of people's hangars. Chremoas are ships given out only to a few people, extremely rare, worth billions; should they be removed? No. There's all sorts of examples like this, where some players either worked hard and won something, or they just got lucky and won something, so stop being envious and get used to it.

Tell you what, the gifts we're getting this Christmas are somewhat random. Some people are getting some skins, others are getting other skins. Newbie corvette skin vs. Svipul skin. How's your luck been? Post here so we can rub it in your face.

I still have an Enyo called "Scope gift". When I started we hadn't loyalty points but it was possible to get T2 frigates as gift from the corporations. So my ship was received as a gift from Scope it it has survived to this day. It should be removed because no one can receive T2 frigates that way nowadays?

I received a daredevil BPC from a rat wandering in a combat mission in high sec while I was mining a omber asteroid. If it was still alive it should be removed because in high sec wandering rats don't drop BPC anymore?

You are full of envy and rage for what you don't have, without any idea of what it do or what was done to receive the items legally.
You follow very well today political settings, but most people doing that live in an illusionary world where simple solutions to complex problem exist.

I am still using that Enyo, a character of mine is using it in the SOE story arc for fun, so I am still benefiting for the gift.

It's worth noting that the scandal really wasn't the reason for the end of the BPO lottery.

The trouble with the BPO distribution mechanism is that it meant there was a finite amount of production capability for T2 items in the game. This was problematic for a variety of reasons.

-It was easy to form price fixing cartels by buying up all or most of a given BPO (cap recharger IIs were profoundly expensive for a while because of this).

-This also made it hopeless for smaller entities to effectively break into T2 production, because once such a cartel got ahold of them, they were never letting go of that cash cow.

-Distribution had to be manually modulated. Suppose someone left the game with their huge cache of BPOs? Distribute more? Or nobody gets, e.g., Cap Recharger IIs anymore? Take the existing ones back? What if they come back to the game? How do you accommodate a growing population with a finite number of BPOs? Supply couldn't smoothly scale to meet demand.

Invention fully addressed these problems. Supply can be scaled to meet any demand, it's impossible to monopolize the production of an item, and it's accessible at a wide range of budgets and production capabilities.

They didn't remove the BPOs because the BPOs were never the problem - distributing T2 production capability was the problem.

If you're still ass-sore about them, you are, of course, welcome to buy them up and trash them, but since they're not causing a problem, yet are still a relatively large "store" of perceived value, you can't expect them to just be poofed out of existence. ;)

Its about time T2 BPOs where removed from the game.

They mostly date back to a time CCP openly cheated and gave thier frends items in game.

Now they just make invention of some items unprofitable as they can sell 10/20 copies