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CCP are employing a simple and oiled strategy well known in the marketing world: when you approach a (yearly) period of low sales (this period being one) start throwing appetizers to catch interest and glue potential buyers to you.

Posting stuff in phases is exactly an expectation raiser => fidelization.

So? Then it is obviously an actively occupied moon.

If it's abandoned POSes that need to go, I'd prefer something along the lines of what's discussed in this thread.

Fair enough, but the total cost to manufacture will be clearly visible before you begin the job. So... yes, some will.
But none of those paying at least slight attention to what they are doing will.

I did consider both cases.

1) For some items, T2 BPO supply will now exceed demand, profitability may go down as invention is no longer the price setter.
2) For some items, T2 BPO produced items will still be insufficient to meet demand, profitability will go up for the BPO holders.

If I had to guess, I would bet the increased profits from the second case would be much larger than potential reduced profits from the first case.


The real point was an attempt to counter Tippa's comment that invention supplied quantity and T2 BPO supplied quantity are unrelated. That is not true. Total demand will be filled by the sum of T2 BPO produced and invention produced. The more produced by BPO, the less needed to be invented.

For a slightly more in depth reaction (bearing in mind I still need to read the other dev blogs, so all reactions are muted by 'other changes are coming)

Market Groups: Good change.

RAM: Great change. Removes a bit of pointless complexity.

Extra Materials: Going to have to see how this is implemented. For example, when a ship is a component. I know how it's handled behind the scenes (with recyclable materials reducing base materials.) Going to have to rewrite my calculator for this In addition, it means that when recycling some T2 things, you'll be able to get back some components you couldn't get before. Unless it's handled differently. tl;dr: Not a bad change. Going to have to see the exact implementation

Cost Scaling: I really need to see the blog on this, before commenting. It sounds like it could be a good change, but I'd prefer to see no upper cap on the cost.


As for T2BPO copying, this could be a real game changer, and one I'm not hugely keen on. depends on how much the cost is reduced. Maybe add some datacores to the cost for copying? Right now, their limitation comes from invention being able to massively outproduce them. Really fast copies could cripple that, which hands a major advantage to the T2 BPO owners.

The UI: oooooo, shiny.




Edit:

No remote blueprint job starting: This is a potentially major concern, due to the risks it opens up when you want to manufacture at a corporate POS. Because there's no lockdown on some /very/ expensive BPOs. Sure, copying is an option. But it might not be sufficient.


Possible mitigation: Add a small (like 100m3) personal hangar to all arrays and labs, which can be used for very expensive things.

That's not my comment, though. My comment was about production, which are unrelated. You're working on the assumption that supply and demand are matched 1:1; that an increase in one production method automatically means reduction in the other; and that “need” is measurable by either party.

The likely scenario is that inventors will keep inventing at the same speed, BPO holders will build at slightly higher speed, and that the difference is lost in the noise of regular market fluctuation. The fact that BPO holders can now produce slightly more has exactly zero impact on how much inventors choose to produce.

I thought insurance actually did take mineral costs into account. Maybe the extra minerals aren't factored in? If that's the case this change may rectify that. Otherwise I'm not sure.

Nice summary, but you missed what I consider to be the biggest change of all. No more building or researching from BPO that is safely locked down in corp hanger in station.

The hassle that is going to create... alt corp running a high sec large tower to allow safe research and copy of 10s of billions of ISk worth of BPOs.. MAJOR dumb complexity.

They are never going to get the intended change of 10s or 100s of billions of ISk worth of BPOs being put into POS structures where they can be stolen, destroyed or captured as loot drop. Players are just not that stupid!

The whole idea seems to be to force people to defend their assets, yet there is no way now to defend them from a thief in their own corp? How is a person supposed to join a corp of sufficient size to defend their POS, while in the same motion, removing the ability to secure the prints from thieves in the same corp? I thought we were shifting away from the horribly broken (and apparently unfix-able) POS mechanics, not forcing people to risk billions of isk in assets at them.

IMHO, the worst part of T2 BPOs are the hate and discontent they create in new(er) players. No matter how long we play, we will never get a change to become an instant mega billionaire, simply by winning a T2 BPO lottery. We will always be at a SERIOUS disadvantage to other players, simply because we are newer.


Real mega-advantage or not, it is the perception that creates the hate.


I know CCP has a policy of not removing things, but they could buff invention so that inventors are on an equal footing with T2 BPO holders. There, didn't "remove" T2 BPO, just made them irrelevant.