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They are free to do that when they apply the same system to every BPO in the game.

Fair point. However that still won't make a significant dent in the demand for those ships. Invention still provides the vast majority of the stock on the market, and would continue to do so.

T1 BPO's can be 'produced' fresh by a player. Without paying scam prices to another player.
T2 BPO's can not. If a T2 BPO is profitable it will not sell without being a scam price. If it is not profitable then it also will be a scam price on sale because it's not profitable.
T2 BPO's also displace inventors who are unable to compete due to the lowered production costs of the BPO.

Thus T2 BPO's are an inherently unfair mechanic that was grandfathered into the game because early CCP didn't realise the long term impact of leaving them around.
The fact that every single time industry gets touched special consideration keeps needing to be given to the special case of T2 BPO's and how to avoid screwing over inventors says that they should be removed for the health of the game.

If you use a T2 BPO for production, 3 years worth of production is a reasonably fair compensation. If price margins say it could be 4 or it could be 2. But the point is that it would then be a limited resource that would run out and would not require special treatment or balancing any more.
If you hold a T2 BPO for collectors value, the collectors items would still have their identical value as collectors items. If they dropped in value as a result of becoming non functional then obviously they had value for their production capability, in which case, refer to the above sentence for how that value was already compensated.

Well, to be fair, those that already have or can create/gain access to Gallante outposts will be obtaining more T2 BPO's now. Still, there actually aren't that many BPO's out there to be had.

If you plan to make industry dependent on BPCs can you please address the problem of how many BPCs can fit into a Container? At the moment I handle thousands of BPCs and having to spread them amoungst many cans is causing headaches. You are making changes to blueprints now so this is the time to change BPCs

I would suggest that you make it that BPCs of the same stats can be stacked. I know this will take some creative programming but I have faith in you guys.

That is a terrible hatchet job of an idea.

I think some complete overhaul of base requirements to copy a T2 BPO is needed.

There is certainly a reoccurring pattern. I agree with Person B that the T2 BPOs don't feel right, but don't like the hyperbole. CCP responds to the argument that things don't seem right (different copy times for T2 BPOs doesn't seem right to Greyscale). It is also obvious that the T2 BPOs are not going away immediately. That would also be unfair to those who have purchased them as a productive asset. Given these conflicting interests I think that CCP can simply not improve the T2 BPOs or nerf them slightly over time. Either way addresses the twin facts that they were a mistake and that they are part of the game.

This takes the impacted markets from a handful of under utilized cases and turns it into a sizeable portion of the T2 market. I am sure CCP can run a query to see how many are impacted by a doubling of BPO output. Its a very safe bet its more than was impacted by 6.25% though. 60% is pretty laughable after all.

Our hope is they nerf outposts in some way or nerf copy time on T2 bpos, or rather not unnerf them.

How so? If CCP's idea is to make copying a T2 BPO slightly more effective than building on it, compensating for the T3 Gallente Station that every single T2 BPO will land in makes sense. Failing to do this causes the T2 BPO to be able to generate more than twice as many runs per time period than before.

The low production volume of T2 BPO's invalidates most of your argument.

Yes, you can earn a higher profit per item... but the number of items you can actually produce is laughably low.

I make far better income from a well organized Invention chain than I can hope to make from my BPO, due to the far greater volume I can produce.

This has been explained every time this argument has come up over the years, but it never seems to sink in.

There is also no other BPO in the game that you can obtain that magically loses it's ability to produce after a set amount of time, nor should there be. I invested a huge amount of time and effort to obtain mine, and many have paid huge sums to obtain theirs (sums that mean they will have zero return on investment for literally years after the purchase).

To set the precedent to remove their ability to produce (effectively removing them from the game) is one CCP is understandably very reluctant to make... and you should probably rethink asking them to do so lest the same eventually happen to you... simply because other people have no idea what they are talking about.