Assembly Hall

Greetings Members of the Council for Stellar Management and EVE Pilots,

I would like to propose an idea we had that could improve player control over the number of blueprints and afford additional opportunities for players to achieve control over markets. And expand the game for players interested in industrial play, while addressing a game balance issue that hampers newcomers to EVE, while giving Early Adopters a massive market advantage

While talking with my CEO it occurred to us that the ability to make a profit on T2 ships is becoming harder and that most T2 materials with decent invention of prints are not profitable for me or any of my corp mates able to make ships.

We theorized that the mega alliances like Goonswarm and Pandemic Legion (or others) have a monopoly on Tech 2 BPOs with a much better materials efficiency lvl readily available and a free-flowing moon goo supply to make these ships for far lower cost than any other group.

This means early adopters of EVE have an unfair advantage over all other players, and are effectively controlling the Tech 2 Market.

During this conversation we considered the fact that as t3 ships need to be reverse engineered why not destroy a tec 2 ship and from a fragment of the salvaged ship reverse engineer a BPO of the ship?

This would create a new task and activity niche in the game and would make it possible for others to gain the BPO’s that exist in the game now, but are only available to the select few mega alliances and aforementioned early EVE adopters who won Tech 2 BPOs way back when.

This idea could also be adapted to all ships and modules in game at this time and work on the invention principle. It would require skills, datacores and a percentage chance of success similar to current invention practices in EVE.

Thank you for your consideration and hope you will find this concept of sufficient merit to present it to CCP at the next summit, or earliest opportunity.

chen Gidrine and Enn DeeKay

Or just get rid of T2 BPOs all together. Problem solved.

I'd like to see the statistics before I believe that wholesale.



I know of several that aren't on inactive accounts.



Possibly.

Without the data it's merely speculation. Certainly the changes to industry over the past few years have made T2 invention a lot more competitive than in the past.

CCP are not likely to release the data about the effect T2 BPOs have. However it would be interesting to see from players an analysis of margins in markets where no T2 BPO exists vs ones where one does.
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Fang

I remember there was a presentation during Fanfest 2013 that touched on T2 BPOs (with Dr. Egyoaksmkasncai;jdfh;rkndcsomethingsomething).

If I recall correctly... T2 BPOs accounted for less than ~10% of the total production for the most popular items that players use.
For items that saw little to no market movement, T2 BPOs accounted for almost 66%+.

Also... excluding invention costs, T2 BPOs only have nominally higher margins than T2 BPCs. And if you DO factor in invention costs, you need only produce the BPC/product in bulk quantities to lower the impact of that cost... making the advantage of a T2 BPO come down only to the number of steps and click you have to perform in order to produce.

Make what you will of that info.