first of, russian forum --> that way
second: I hate that some people want this game to be a linear progression, you start with light, then assault then mech and finaly heavy mech, there are mmos with this mechanics they are not sandboxes tough.
As others said: 2-3 people when they know what they are doing will always be in advantage against one no matter if that one spent 5 times more on his bot.
also many makes dps comparsion but they forget that mechs have (compared to assault): better range(+they can actually fit range extenders), double hp!, and more slot to customize, either for resist, dps etc.

Now your words against the devs'. Which side has proof?  
I hope the devs don't try to tell misinformation in matters like this, they could only lose with that and could gain nothing.
If they think wiping the involved person's accounts is a fair punishment then do and say so. I'd not argue about that

This was mostly the devs' own fault. They were told to do something but ignored the issue so many other corp/individual started to use this, because if their enemies were using they thought they needed it too to be competitive.

No thx, no need for I win robots, all types must have their uses, lights assault and mechs. I agree that mechs' uses are somewhat limited and that needs to be changed but light robots should not go obsolete, diversity is good.

If they really wanted to have something train for just introduce the mk2 robots already. a bit more  hp,  +0.1 kmph speed etc, make them expensive in EP (mk2 lights and mk2 mechs would require a similar amount of EP, mechs still bit more..)
I really liked in EVE that all ship class was somewhat usefull in endgame, every ship was most efficient in its size range. 2-3 lightbots should be able to kill a mech, 1vs1 the mech will win as it should be.

Seems most of us agrees, we need more islands even if they are just barren worlds with a few points of interest.
Not having outposts is a good idea too, just make many entry points to the new islands, both from beta and alpha islands so they are more accesable. I think it's a good thing that resources are not equally distributed and the new lands could have more and less valuable regions: the more valuabled will be crowded and dominated by the large corps anyway, but smaller corps/solo players could find relatively safe spots even in pvp enabled area.

We are talking about different things now:
1, I think safe islands should remain in the game because new players need a place to establish themself, their corp. Especially later in the game  a new corp wouldnt have any chance to take a hold in pvp area untill weeks or months and then they couldnt grow in an overcrowded small island.

2, I think adding more land may not be enough, but it is absolutely necessary for this game to grow. why would anyone want to go back and forth on the whole map? logical comparsion is eve, players don't fly through he whole map too often.
If we want the players to leave the alpha islands we have to give them at least some chance to survive outside-and on the other hand these players would give more to the pvp -ing pool, so those on beta islands wouldnt be as bored as they are now.

Says who? i think the pve islands are fine as they are, we need safe zones for new players BUT we need to give them opportunity to leave these islands. Now there is only one way: to join an existing alliance, what they either can't or don't want to.
The solution is what me and others keep saying: we need much more land. places to explore to look for new resources, places to own, places to hide. Even if you would just copy the beta islands-two copy of each and put them into the game-> 3 times more land to play on. (Ok, I actually hope we can get better than copies ).
Ideally we need much bigger land, I say with much sparse resources which are not equally distributed (last patch is a good move in the right direction)

If the devs wanted to help someone intentionally they could have done it less plainly (gifting a few billion nics for example ) If they leaked information to some friends without thinking of the consequenses then they should look into now and learn from it. no point doing accusations tough, there won't be evidence anyway.
((I thought this new plant will be used for a new tier of equipment. If I had known that they would change the t4 items' cost I would had bought them up all.. as someone appearently did and making tons of money. ))

I don't agree with the op's conclusion. this patch in itself won't raise the market price. buying up everything and selling for higher price could work well tough.

I wonder if they gona change it in every month

But very nice things overall

just counted that with max skills and prototype weapon tunings you would be able to get 95% cycle time reduction for weapons if it worked like you thought. That's 20 times dps increase