Well Since while zoom is running around the bush so to speak, here is the answer, youll be given rp equal to what you already have to spend on the new system. BUT you will have to have the ep to but into the tiers. So if you dont have the ep you wont be able to produce what you can now.

"So what will happen to your current knowledgebase when this gets into the game? Well it will be wiped of course and you’ll have to start over, ha-ha. Nah, I’m just kidding, once we figure the exact RP value of every item in the new technology tree, we can give you the matching amount of RP for your actual knowledge, so you can basically rebuild your knowledgebase from scratch. Now, we can’t guarantee that you’ll have the same amount of “raw research value” after that, but I’m sure that being able to select specific technologies to research will mostly provide you with a better result overall. We still have to figure out what happens to unresearched kernels, so we’ll get back to that.

This is why i call for a EP RESET,

If I'm following correctly, and I admittedly am not following as closely as I once did, the new Extensions are going to be required for both Prototyping and Factory characters.

PT is going to NEED them to open up research so they can craft the proto, and factory is going to need them to reduce mat/time cost.

However, it also feels like it is not a bad idea to have a higher complexity (but I'm open to counter-arguements), if the corp tech isn't limited by a single player.

The entire concept of the new tree is so solo players can concentrate on a specific branch of the tree and reach T4 without having to learn everything, and not having to spend billions of NIC on kernels on 'wasted tech'. Same thing with EP, it should take a long time for a solo player to open up all the tech trees.

That said, the same should NOT Be true with corporations. There should not be EP gating for the corporation Tech tree.

I don't have time to think of all the details, but conceptually, a corporation should be able to leverate ALL the prototypers in their corp to bring the Corp Tech tree up. If they only have 1, than it's going to be similar to a solo player, but if they have 10 players each putting EP into sperate extensions, the Corp should be able to raise all it's tech to the max.

Yeah, I think that's what I was trying to say, thanks.

What I was thinking is about sharing the load. Where you can have (8) players with max level skills in each of the trees, instead of needing to have (1) player spend all EP in all trees.

Edit: (7) players

ok i had the time to take a closer look at the tech trees and here are some thoughts about the whole thing:

general i see a lot of good points but i think it can be improved.

atm the trees are simple forking trees. we only have one requirement for each skill. and sometimes they fork but never come back together.
i think it will be a good idea to have a couple more options here:
- have more then one requirement
- have either/or requirements
- have inter skilltree conections (few not too many)

the either/or connection could be used for example on the industrial tuning. this should not only be avalibe from the miner, but also from the harvester.
also the riveler should be linked to the miner and not to the tuning. just like the symbiont is linked to the harvester.

there would be quite a few good and logical sample for the inter techtree connections. ill combine this one even with the either/or option:
eccm would need besides the coprocessor connection also the ecm or the supressor.

quite a few more connections of that type could be made to make the whole thing a bit more intresting. of cource we dont want too many of thse links or we basicly have to research everything before we get anywhere.

what is a bit unlogical are the ammunition choices here. i see 2 possible aproaches here but non was followed to the end:
- first the ammo that is good vs your own race (incenary slug, ap missile, seismic cell)
- first ammo good vs enemy faction that also is the single dmg ammo (composite slugs, sonic missile, thermal cell)
second one is my personal preference logic wise. its more easy to make a kinetic weapon do kinetic dmg, more easy for a laser to do heat dmg ... that is the basic technology. adding a second effect is more difficult so that is the secondary ammunition later in the tech tree.

on one side i see the point that a corp database should be more expensive. but hell a single prototyper can produce enough for even a big corp. prototypes are not needed in the masses. my prototyper is idle most of the time. so where do you need 10 or more of them? yes we have low population atm, but even with a lot of players this factor 10 is way over the roof. if its more then factor 3 i doubt a lot corps will even build that database at all and with that a good feature in this game wated simple because its for most not worth doing so.

last but not least enabler extentions:
some numbers to bring in some facts. we have 6 different types of tech trees (i dont think we will see 2 common enable extentions, one for each tree)
with complexity 1 (level1-10) this will be 13500ep per extention = ~9,3d --- = 81000ep for all 6extentions = ~56d
with complexity 2 (level1-10) this will be 27000ep per extention = ~18,7d --- = 162000ep for all 6extentions = ~112,5d
with complexity 3 (level1-10) this will be 40500ep per extention = ~9,3d --- = 243000ep for all 6extentions = ~168,75d

i think that these numbers show quite wenn that anything besides complexity one will be through the roof. we have 6 extentions so this will add up to quite a bit.
a work around would be to lower some prototyping extentions costs and so have some more room for research. but on the downside high research ep costs will slow newer ppl down imensly so i dont think too much here is a good idea.

i might have forgotten something, but enough for now.

So basically you are still designing the game for the population you dream of, not the population you have.

Pardon my bluntness, but the latter would be pretty stupid. What we have now is not sustainable forever.

Zortarg: we'll consider a lower multiplier. And I'd have to move things around for that Riveler move but it's doable of course.

The sad reality is that most corporations have "+10 people" simply because 3 people have 3-4 accounts each.

So basically, you're saying that completing corp kb will need 4x-10x more rp than personal kb?

So as CEO will I be able to limit and/or deny prototyping rights to the new guy who joined yesterday, or is it enough to get an alt in a maxed out corp and just leech prototypes?

My only concern is that I won't have everything researched in the new system that I do now.

Can you answer the basic question on a single player basis will the new system reduce the amount of researched items or will you have everything researched now that you did before the change?