I'd say for now the production bonuses are enough incentive to research them, or are they not?

Yeah, the factory bonus is not that much if you already have high enough efficiency, and you don't need the prototyping bonus here (if you have access to reversable buildings somehow). We might bring in building prototypes later, but certainly not for this patch yet.

i have to agree. easpecially for gamma structures its totaly needed for prototypes. the ppl that have the tech want to sell their buildings and not their tech for everybody to have.

on the other hand this will make structures a lot more expensive. as long as we keep the ct degration we have atm. so this might want to be overlooked then again as well.

for example:
a terminal has atm ~20% increased cost because of 20points ct degration.

but thats if you reverse a non prototype terminal. so the ct cost is 1x building devided by its uses (minus one or you no longer can produce a new one)
if you have to build a prototype terminal. then the ct costs will be multiplied by 10 (or a bit more for the higher tech ones). that will basicly trible the basic costs of a terminal in basic materials. (without manifacturing wastage).

edit:
ok lud is right. it will go down if you have both personal and corporate research, but still will be a bit much.

Yeah i have to agree with Zortarg's post & the OP.

Something needs to change other wise we will never see Tier 2-3 Buildings ect. on the market & i see no reason why this should be the case.

as the above 2 posts have said just tweak the CT degradation.

Standard items (not just ammo) are a good starter market, why limit new players even further?

I remember this too. It seemed like ages before all those kernals I swallowed got me anything I couldn't just buy or repair (i.e. T2 and above).

Which leads on to something else that needs balancing imo and certainly if T1P was to work: The module drops from NPCs are way way too high. On a single tier 3 mech/heavy spawn on Shinj recently (I was doing Science™!) one hour of farming (killing 243 mobs) got me 299 T1 modules, albeit damaged. This included 38 medium reppers, 71 Medium LCL lasers and 18 other types of modules in varying quantities. I suspect that if I'd gone for a tier 2 spawn I'd have got even more.

That is an insane amount.

No ,don't change it.

Ok, was just mentioning the introduction of T1P, and T1 drop rates came up. I can see where this is coming from though. These drop rates directly compete with willing new players who want to start as an indy character, so there is certainly a problem here.

^^ this

Nobody produces T1, you just loot it off the field from beacons or ratting, and use it to build T2.  T1 is the "plankton" of the industrial world.  It helps in all aspects of industry from the bottom up.  From recycling for mats, selling for NIC, using it to produce T2, or just using it as free gear to use when starting out.  It is the beginning of the whole system.  Hence why it's NPC seeded.

New indy players wont make much money selling T1, but if its easy for them to get decent amounts of T1, and turn it into T2, they will make money selling that.  Even vets use T2 gear in higher EP builds.  One of my favorite builds is almost all T2.  Not to mention that large scale producers will by large quantities of T2 to make T3-T4.  I would gladly buy all my T2 gear, instead of having to build T1 -> T2.  That would save major amounts of time for me, and would also allow new players to sell something to the open market with reliable demand.

wow, my bad.  I never produce T1 I just get it from drops and turn it into mats or T2 gear.  So that changes things (I just assumed everyone does what I do ), but I still think that the drop rates, if changed, shouldn't be changed drastically.

Your secret is out Ludlow,  I shall now compete