Jita Park Speakers Corner

Hey hey, I saw this episode of Simpsons, we all skip voting for Mittani and Riverini gets in because we're all hung over (and still drunk) at the celebration party.

Lets not and say we did, eh?

this is one defenetly not getting my vote

I hate to get personal - but as mentioned by a couple of people in this topc, you can have my vote if you shave off that ridiculous tuft of hair on your chin. Do we have a deal?

I'm actually pretty impressed with how the CSM went last year, but wanted to ask a question on the T2 BPO thing.

Do you really think they are even that relevant to industry? I mean, yes, they price out invention in large ships (command ships, recons, and most HACs) but they don't significantly affect module invention as the demand so massively outstrips the quantity the BPO owners can supply.

In terms of unfair profitability the payoff times on these is usually around 7 years these days, so they really aren't that profitable. But they do supply an investment opportunity for people that have ungodly amounts of ISK. They also supply the single most valuable items in game, which is kind of neat. A sleipnir BPO recently sold for something like 230 Billion ISK.

And its not like there aren't high end invention opportunities available in game. Jump Freighters, T2 BSs, and T2 Siege/Triage modules come to mind. And if they add more T2 ships this will only be more true.

It would just make me kind of sad to see these items disappear. I don't think the BPO lottery was a good idea, but the main damage is already done and only diminishes over time as new items appear, and frankly you won't find many industrialists that really feel these items affect their game play.

Even as someone who would never invest in one because they are so unprofitable I appreciate their existence for the uniqueness they represent. Removing them would be like when the French killed all the Unicorns, something we all feel bad about today. SUPPORT BIODIVERSITY IN THE MARKETS.


Edit: Oh yeah, one other issue I was curious about. High Sec incursions seem to be a really big issue in terms of profitability and lack of risk.

Do you think that they are a significant problem and do you support their removal?

The best T2 BPO nerf would be a change in the focus on material cost for T2 production. The ME advantage of producing from a BPO is the big advantage of the T2 BPO holder. In short: you can boost invention by nerfing Technetium

That said, the fact that margins on SKUs like HICs, for which no BPOs exist, aren't noticeably different from HACs, indicates that the greatest competition inventors face is not BPO holders, but other inventors. (Barring low-volume items which, by definition, are less relevent.)

Wow that was remarkably incomprehensible. It looks like you actually put effort into making sure it couldn't be deciphered. But the jokes on you, I broke your code and figured out the secrets you wished to hide, and will reveal them here:

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

A crummy commercial? Not cool man.

Yeah, this and the weight of 1000 other forum alts.

You're pretty good at the idiot game.

People still mad about supercap nerfs are my favorite thing about Eve. Hopefully they will soon be replaced with people mad about titan tracking getting fixed.

Mittens,

Apologies first of all if I've glanced over previous discussion in this thread or the chairman's thread.

As DUST 514 is slowly becoming a reality, what is your stance, concerns and feelings on the game itself, how it is progressing, and the ultimate issue of how it is going to integrate into EVE-O itself?

Thanks for your time.