Eilene Fernite
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Posted - 2006.11.09 11:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Darcie Wray
should not qualify someone to own a BPO that has a market value of 70 billion freaking isk.
There are only a few bpo's out there that are worth 70 billion. None of those were worth 70 billion when they were given out in the lottery.
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Luck on that scale should not be used as a game mechanic. It should not be purposfully programmed into a game that is as realistic and challenging as EVE. Luck happens on its own enough without having some code decide some unworthy person gets to be the supreme mega-billionaire of EVE.
Unworthy? Supreme mega-billionaire? I'm starting to spot a tendency to exagerate in your post.
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What you t2 bpo lottery lovers dont understand is that CCP made a mistake making it SO EASY for a SELECT FEW to gain so much POWER with MINIMAL EFFORT. That is what makes us MAD.
You are making the same mistake as many others made before you. The number of t2 bpo's that make huge profits, is very limited. These are some of the hac bpo's, the notorious cap recharger II bpo, the cloak bpo, and I'm sure I've missed a few.
If you were to make a graph with on the vertical the profits to be made off a bpo, and on the horizontal the number of bpo's that are able to make those profits, you'd get a curve that shows you that the majority of t2 bpo's aren't as profitable as you make them out to be.
If you don't believe me, you can get all the data out of the market screen, feel free to investigate this yourself before making unfounded claims.
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The reward is based on CONSTANT PLAYER EFFORT. The price alone is not what ****es people off about most t2 bpos. Its the fact that the players that own them did nothing to deserve them and do next to nothing to produce their isk.
Now, granted, the top few sellers might still look like a problem to you. What you fail to realize though, is that none of those were valued at the prices you mention, when they were first released. The people that hold them today, have for the most part aquired them not through luck, but through insight and hard work. Hard work to be able to afford to buy them off the lottery winners that were looking to make a quick buck, insight in order to buy the right ones. Which brings us back to your own statement, 'this is a game that emphasizes hard work and intelligence to reach goals'.
Ofcourse CCP has the power to change the mechanics concerning t2 bpo seeding. And I'm sure they would've made some big changes if they thought that the current mechanics were completely breaking the game. In stead, they opted to come with invention, which isn't really a big change, it's not going to have a huge effect on the whole t2 market. The conclusion you can draw from that is that CCP is generally happy with the t2 situation.
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Get it through your heads.
Yeah. I'm sure there will come a time when everyone agrees with your points. Probably around the same moment you stop being jealous of people that have used their abilities to make sure their financial future in Eve was secured.
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