Precident for BP Recipe Change?

[Coop_]

I see that enhancer bp recipes were changed to take nova fragments instead of blazars.

Has this happened before, where a bp was changed after it had been crafted for a while? Are no crafters upset by this?

[Rotrap]

Too new to know about any precedents , but I did read the whole a20x amp series was replaced with the e amp series at one point.

Looks to me like this change is going to make the enhancers a lot cheaper, as it also reduced the number of fragments needed.... so in the long run should be good I guess.

[SpikeBlack]

Not as far as I know (I'm not a crafter) but Ore amp lite bp's were added which needed different amounts to the originals.

I've got the feeling this was done because its still a limited market and it's not working out how MA / FPC thought it would. They probably thought we'd all jump at it but we haven't, atleast not to the degree they wanted.

[steffel]

sucks if one bought stuff to make a big crafting run today just to see the bp changed without upfront notice
(while blazar got rarer now the demand probly goes down even more since tiering consumes less than mass crafting does? so i doubt there would be much profit from reselling stocked blazar...)

[Harmony.]

yes it has happened before, on the generic texture bp for one.

Don't see the harm in it (in this case) really, if anyone bought a use batch to craft with yesterday, they can resell that same batch with a profit today.

[Shapememory]

would expect to see blazer frags to drop in price to nothing now, long live the nova frag!

*side note, this mean my blazers frags i put in auction last night probably wont sell 3-4 time MA yanked the rug out from under these things

[mastermesh]

yes, it has happend a couple of times before... Actually if you read the VU history you can see one time when some massive changes happened several years ago that involved an entire change in the way crafting worked overall!

[Coop_]

Originally Posted by SpikeBlack

Not as far as I know (I'm not a crafter) but Ore amp lite bp's were added which needed different amounts to the originals.

I've got the feeling this was done because its still a limited market and it's not working out how MA / FPC thought it would. They probably thought we'd all jump at it but we haven't, atleast not to the degree they wanted.

For sure they are still working at balancing the new system--would have been difficult to get it right from the start.

Originally Posted by Shapememory

would expect to see blazer frags to drop in price to nothing now, long live the nova frag!

*side note, this mean my blazers frags i put in auction last night probably wont sell 3-4 time MA yanked the rug out from under these things

I can guarantee you that they sold already if you put a buyout. Blazars have doubled at least in price.

What will keep the price from dropping to nothing is that MA fixed the tiering process to give the residue it should have given from the start. Tiering tt items is now a much better way to skill than it was before the fix.

[billairboy]

mostly a cosmetic change, they have changed the fragment and diveded the fragment needed with about 10. This way they can make the novas very cheap and make it cheaper to craft enhancers, but at the same time make it possible to find blazers with a higher value.

[antonioliveira]

Remembering the VU10.6 Content List, from 17DEC2009:

RESETTLEMENT UPDATE

A joint research project on Earth and Calypso has isolated some of the factors of Calypso’s rapid evolution. Called “fragments”, the first practical use of these items is to enhance the performance of equipment.

“Now that we know what to look for”, says RDI spokesperson Randolph Vemlick, “it is actually pretty easy to harvest and use fragments.”

So far, one kind of fragments, Blazar fragments, has been isolated.

Expecting in the near future something like:

RESETTLEMENT UPDATE

The joint research project on Earth and Calypso that has isolated some of the factors of Calypso’s rapid evolution called “fragments” have discovered a new one, that was named nova.

“At first, we thought blazar fragments were unique, but the tests undertaken by our group managed to discover that we were classifying as blazar all kinds of fragments”, says RDI spokesperson Randolph Vemlick, “looking from a distance they all look the same, but with the improved knowledge, we have clearly different fragment types.”

This confusion lead all of us to believe that we were using blazar in the enhancer mafufacture while we were actually using nova fragments, which have a very similar structure. Due to this breakthrough we are now able to differentiate fragments that are used for tiering and for enhancer production.