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So the "small corp" is whining that those with "large collections" are getting nerfed? There seems to be a hole in your logic.

Rather than worrying about getting the perfect ME baseline values to match what they were before the change, I think it makes more sense to worry about the low ME values.

As it stands with a 10/9 multiplier on the materials, the values for a "baseline" ME 0 blueprint will be going up by a 1/99 before the funky rounding. Why not just call the current ME 0 requirements the new baseline values (so have a increase of 10% to give the new baseline) . For ME > 1, you're going to have to find the appropriate match anyway no matter what the baseline adjustment is.

Assuming negative ME values correspond to -10xthe value in the new system, invention material costs may go up a bit. A ME -4 blueprint corresponded to a 150% multiplier under the old system, and would be at -40% ME under the new system about 10/9*1.4 = 155.56% which is likely to lead to increased material costs for inventors. With my 10% baseline change this would be 154% which is a bit better. Of course you can customise the percentages for each decryptor, but they would look a little funny.
Maybe it's time to remove some of the material advantages that the T2 BPOs and BPCs have over the invented copies.

So just about everyone involved in industry at the moment is dumb. Its a point of view I suppose.
The problem is with HTFU is that most players are are already 'hardened' and some little pipsqueak saying that is pretty irrelevant. Most players will continue until the expansion is released and then make their decisions then.

I have a Charon BPO at ME 9. Perfect is ME 19.

If I research them to ME 10 now they'll be upgraded to ME 10%.

The people that spent twice as long researching are penalized GREATLY.

Check your maths CCP.

Are you serious? The dev blog clearly states: Every BPO at ME 10 or higher gets set to the maximum of ME 10% after the change. You're actually getting rewarded here. The only ones getting "penalized" are those for some reason loved big numbers so much they wasted "effort" on insanely over-researching their blueprints.

Along with medium rigs in which most, if not all are perfect at ME 4

One thing I find people missing about T2 BPO's:

Nobody will produce T2 BPO's via POS anymore, meaning they are going to lose 25% production. So while yes if they now install copy jobs and multiple install jobs they can get a 6% more advantage, they are still down 19% and doing more work.

Meaning:

Invention will have to fill that gap of 19 to 25%, so say 22% if half the people copy and the other half don't. This helps invention.

I am guessing CCP wishes they never introduced T2 BPO's, but they also know they would have an amazing amount of people unsub if they just took them away. People have spent billions of isk to get just a few.

Issue #1

Time involved from going to 0-10 ME/PE seems a bit long especially for new players compared to getting to same post patch ME/PE with current research times (with the relevant conversions***)?

Issue #2

T2 BPOs... Please just get rid of them or nerf them.

Reimburse NPC price; give a max run copy

No, you would hear a lot of screaming, but you would not see many unsubs.

Over the years, the useful T2 BPOs have been collected and are held by a rather small number of older players. And, the majority of those players are so heavily invested in the game that they won't quit, unless CCP decides to reset everyone back to noob status.