At noon today Phil ‘gorngonzolla’ Zeleski announced some fairly decent changes to the R&D system impacting the costs for rare and very rare components.

The short term impact is a net negative for anything crafted prior to the code change, but long term it makes for lower costs and it eases the demand for hard-to-get materials (rubidium for example).

Changes should be implemented on Tribble next week, and with our fingers crossed added to Holodeck shortly thereafter.