Now that Superior Observers have been removed from Alpha, will you be replacing all player bots lost to these NPC's on Alpha, they were clearly overpowered ?

To work out the actual manufacturing cost of an item, would one simply multiply each component of the item by the current or average market rate?  And also take into account factory and CT costs ?

I have heard that some people use a second method and break down the cost back from the Ore rate,  for better accuracy.  As Ore is always worth more than the individual components?

Percentage wise what would the difference in result between the two methods?  I currently use the first as its easy, and don’t fully understand how do do the second!

Any help/answers/methods on this would be very helpful

Thanks