Originally by: Lord Fitz

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Originally by: Vyktor Abyss

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Unique ship function: To wave your Epeen around looking cool until getting blown to smithereens.
Unique T2 BPO function: To produce unlimited amounts of T2 ships and modules much cheaper than any rival until the game ends.

Just for info: Some interesting calculations done in a Hulk BPO auction that sold for 100 Billion - "How much a BPO can save you"

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Except that the T2 BPO doesn't produce an unlimited amount, it produces a fixed amount, invention produces a fixed amount. That calculation shows that someone building two invented hulks makes more than someone building one with the BPO.

The Hulk BPO sold to someone that paid 100 billion isk for it, but and even if they only built 1 for 1 it would take around 14 YEARS to pay back compared to someone just inventing their BPCs and building exactly the same amount.

Ok, so we've established that the people that got them in the lottery have now made 100b, the solution to that is to remove them from the people that paid 100b for them?

The hulk of course is the extreme example, most T2 BPOs are much cheaper and make much less isk, some have no value whatsoever other than their value as a unique item.

You're also proving that even the best T2 BPOs are still just as available now as they have ever been, to anyone willing to pay for them. In order to gain that exact advantage you're claiming is unfair, you only need to do exactly what the current owners did to get theirs.

Also you're still missing the point totally, it doesn't matter how much it costs to build an item from the BPO, the only thing that matters is the market cost and the cost to invent, which is entirely determined by other inventors regardless of if there's a BPO, and due to the perception that the BPOs actually are rivals, often the items that have T2 BPOs have far greater profits than the invention only items which sell for quite often a loss as people just 'assume' they're making a profit since without a BPO owner there couldn't possibly be someone undercutting them and losing money.

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