Missions & Complexes

Currently for old nullsec LP stores, there is no point of taking a ship hull ( especially cruiser and battleship hull ).
This is due to changes to drop rates, escalation rates, and pirate ships over the years.

Nightmare/ Ratlesnake / Machariel / Bahaghorn BPC drop rate is so high that no one ever will pull BPC for those ships from LP store, or even think about getting a hull for LP points.

My proposal is to change all battleship BPC for those hulls to 4 runs for the same amount of LP.
In case of the stores where the ready hull can be obtained , i propose to reduce the amount LP needed in exchange for additional Tags needed.

Yes this will make those hulls probably even cheaper , but at the same time will bring again possibility to have this option in LP store viable.

EDIT.
Other possibility.

Reduce the LP cost to 20.000 for a single run battleship BPC.
Increase the ISK cost in lp store to 200-300mil.

Good ISK sink , and someone will actually pull those BPC from LP store.

High? Right... I must have had really really bad luck in the numerous sites I've done then.

That, however, makes them more viable as spaceships to fly, so...

I would like to see this change. None-FW LP store are pretty mediocre.

Well demand is not to big for this thing, and tons of isk will be pulled out.
It is easy to make 20k lp.
20k LP , 300mil and next 170mil to build a battleship.
So 470mil of raw costs not connected to the LP.

and that is the problem with LP stores

at at only 20k LP to get a bs bpc, well... I can only imagine the market getting flooded in the short term, with a long term price reduction that will probably put the LP value either very small or negative. because you didn't change anything with the drop rates from other sources.

on the Empire side FW invalidates many empire LP stores, then there are a few other LP stores where value is capped ~2000 isk/lp because everyone has figured out what to sell, and you can easily convert CONCORD lp to whatever when it goes above that rate. typically items above that rate are low volume, or completely useless collectors pieces that are even lower volume.

personally I'm foreseeing a long term LP value drop, that said Tiericide could do some very interesting things to shake it up, but that would only be short run turbulence. see the concord part and it isn't too hard to relocate. And CCP directly messing with LP stores might go way too far in whatever direction.

I remember seeing 10 people in CNRs alone on the CPF undock in Irjunen, these days you are lucky to see 10 people in Irjunen.

BTW the real money in pirate missions is all the tags you can get your hands on.

Economy is player based.
Currently there is no minimal price tag for a BPC, as you pay mostly in BPC.
Yes Rattlesnakes, Machariells ... well every one old faction battleship is cheap now.
This will not change, as to many changes to drop/escalation rates where done.
Ship stats where changed , maruders buffed.

What can i say - CCP will never agree on a BPC for 100mil and 20k LP - and the same price tag must be for battleships in respective LP store.

The whole point of this 20k LP and isk idea is that i can pay this isk for a BPC , and LP don't escalate costs to high.

No one will spend 400k LP on a battleship BPC , but 20k it is just 1 burner mission.