EVE General Discussion

When build costs are comparable between 2 ships and one stands to gain from ME research more than another, that is an issue in and of itself.

And as far as build in progress, what was done during the change? We didn't suffer catastrophic failure when the materials were changed last month and I'm sure there were more than a few individuals who were trying to take advantage of the ships imminent increase in value down to the last possible moment. How is this change any different?

Also, what, after significant enough time has passed for stockpiles to dwindle to the point where the ship begins to gravitate back up in price to better reflect it's current mineral cost and is freed from the influence of speculative dumping, is the actual issue with making the change? This isn't a massive rewrite and re-balance. I'd anticipate this was very few man hours of actual work and a sort decision making process if you don't try to inflate the effort involved.

Given the data that CCP has been gathering, per sources such as the CSM and more directly evidence to the player base at large by CCP Diagoras, it most likely already falls well within the gathered data and even more so if CCP expends any tangible effort to track and interpret data based on their recent changes. In fact I would be surprised if the very analysis, which given minor re-purposing and drawing from the same already collected data would apply to the subject at hand, wasn't already underway.