@ Arga,
I agree with some of your points although I for one dont want the system to be easy, it should take a very long time to maxx out all of the trees and it took people a long time to do it. the game would not be fun or challenging if you could do it in 3 to 6 months. there needs to equity in the current system translated to the new one.

The way the purposed Ep additions for the new system are designed by adding in the enabler extensions needs to be carefully thought out while it is a great idea  for a bran new system bringing it in at this point causes lots of pain for people who already maxed research & production skills and went on to do other things with their EP.

Should the devs tell players to always have 250K+ Ep on hand in case a redesign of something is needed? This leads me to think that the DEVS will also rewrite the EP needs for (current) Bots when MK3 or higher comes in, or when other (non MK3) new bots are introduced to "balance" the new with the old.

Production has for as long as i can remember been based on how hard you work at it. The harder you work the more benefit you get from it. The way the purposed changes are, they will make it so you not only have to work really hard to be good at production but you have to be in the game a long time (gathering EP) to have access to the upper tier items.

New Corps / players no matter how hard they work will be limited to specific time lines on how fast they will be able to complete research trees and have access to prototype the items in them if the enabler extensions are used. In a corp of 7 people all focusing on one tree each they will only be able to complete it so fast, (assuming they do nothing but spend EP on enabler extensions) which is unrealistic.

^^^ this will make the divide between vets and new players even wider because im sure all of the vet corps have characters with 500K+ unspent EP just waiting for something to warrant using it.   

when adding in NEW systems , robots, items, etc is is expected and almost a given that there will be NEW Ep requirements to use the new items. While the new system is very much needed careful attention needs to be paid to how it will really effect production as a whole.

Ep reallocation is I think needed in this case because it is such a massive change. I have the Ep banked to weather this storm but i am thinking about the other guy who doesnt.

Allow down-grading extensions up to level 10 ..

this is already in place, but limited to accounts for accounts less than 30 days old and for lower levels

Just allow the same thing for all accounts after patch but for all skills not just 7 or lower and allow 1 to 4 down grades a day for 30 days... this will allow prototypers to reallocate EP for the new system.

Two cents from the liver hating society:

I'm totally behind you on EP requirements for prototypers.  Preferably a Lvl 8 skill and I totally think X10 kernels on a corp side is too small,  I think it should be X25 for non EP CEO corp research or if you add in EP requirements for CEOs then X20 should be enough.

Nah bro you want an easy mode " I win" button, I want more like Korean style MMO.  Besides it would be nice seeing some people grinding on Alpha and trading on the market.  And let's all be honest, raise your hand if you've been hording thousands of kernals of all faction since the announcement......................o/  Or in zigzag's case,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,wassup?

After some thought I have to agree with Ville, X10 is definitely too small and should be X50 at least. That way our beloved hungryans can be fed for another year at least.

With the possibilities for exploits and abuse of the prototyping system for corporations I'm not sure if X50 is enough tbh.

I would even say it should require at least 500k EP invested in RP-gating extensions before people are able to craft T4 gear.

So 100k for T2 gear, 250k for T3 gear, and 500k for T4 gear.

And only if you exclusively focus on a certain race, Gamma buildings should have a X20 difficulty modifier.

I think I missed the multiplier portion, but yes, corporations should require more points to be spent per tech advancement.

The main reason is that this tech is persistant, well more persistant then a player anyway. Once a corporation has learned a tech, they never have to repeat it, regardless of how people come and go. That kind of stability has to come at a price. Additionally, or again, its a player base issue. Configuring Corp multipliers on current sizes, 2 to 10 players, ignores how effective 200 or 300 + corps will be.

Research was never easy. While I agree that this change shouldn't wipe out the effort existing PT's tech, it also shouldn't be seen as a change to make research quicker; apparently grind and time are the only tools Perp has for making things hard, so this should be expected as how the difficutly of getting tech will remain.

If anyone can think of a better way to keep research challenging, without making it grindy (i.e. large multiplier), we're all ears.

@Tux your still missing the point.  Research never was and Never is designed to be an 'instant' gratification in this game.  I know I'll use corp research no matter what the cost because it eliminates waiting on a prototypers to login and check the folder.  Also EP investments are midigated through corp research.  This system needs to be in place for a sustainable population, not just the 50 fan boys holding onto a dream.  And God forbid we have to come out from behind our gamma walls and lines of turrets to trade some tech with one another.

Tux, you be trolled!

There are no EP and RP requirements to polish swords and kill orcs.

And Ville on the off chance in your troll you actually have a valid point and belief in not making things easy, I completely agree. When I joined I had an Arby vapourized by a Roaming Kain Observer outside of ICS A ... That did not discourage me, it encouraged me! Make the game more challenging by far! Orange spawns .... Ghey! Remove. Noobs gonna learn and appreciate, by dying. But hard mode doesnt = unattainable.

See this is what's wrong with your entire Corporation, you think I'm trolling 100% of the time, and its far from it.  Unless Xad posts, then it turns into trolling.  I just enjoy the pure rage that flows from his posts.

You will be able to finish your personal production many times over before the corp your in does with an x50 multiplier so there will be no reason for you to use the non existent corp research knowledge base. 

People will come to the game and expect to grind .. and grind they will ... don't forget the amount of kernels will still be very high to complete research

I dont see anyone saying it is positive for the game for new features of the game to be implement that are broken from the onset. x25 & x50 corp multipliers are broken