There will be other events to attain ships and blueprints. There will be PVP and PVE events, PVE events are now at the moment being reworked why on earth people are getting upset over this is just simply insane... It is just pixels
Magnum SLRN and a few other nations GOT BP's for ships it is not putting anyone at a disadvantage when as I see after reading this just about everyone can build said ships, only one nation has a regional bonus that gives stronger hulls maybe perhaps instead of complaining about bp prizes for tournaments suggest reworking some of the regional bonus's. I say this because I'm sorry to say BP prizes for wining tournaments is most likely going to stay because the game needs tournaments, people like compete and win prizes.
Time to get back on topic this is about the new ship construction method not events and tournaments.