BrownSteering

I'm in your same age bracket, and have also put in 1000s of hours (During some 4 day alpha test, over 60 hours in that one test period (followed by a coma sleep period)).  Been doing that whenever it was available for test periods throughout alpha and early beta for close to 3 years now.  Life as a retiree has its advantages!
 
I'm a diehard solo  jack-of-all-trades PVE player that competes well with many organizations due to focus and time invested.  I have my mega factory on a Large space core and was only a few days away from my Warp Beacon starting.  Rather perturbed that schematics were dropped on us with little notice (unless you were ATV).  If I'm understanding correctly, its likely going to cost me a small fortune for a warp beacon schematic, presuming I finally find a marketplace that sells them, after risking PVP gankers since I'll be forced into PVP space to find that schematic.  The 2 days notice means I may well have to spend months before I can now start my Warp Beacon construction.  I'll go check things out, but if this prediction is true, I'll probably leave, perhaps temporarily, perhaps forever - life is simply too short to grind endlessly when the apparent justification for this boils down to NQ needing to reduce load on its infrastructure.  The alternative, optimizing code or rewriting it using a better algorithm apparently is beyond NQs capabilities.
 
Very disappointed JC! 

locking everything in industry behind schematics is dumb  id be okay with locking special schematics behind currency but in its current state im done 

Have your devs play the game , from the start with no god mode 
 
They will learn more from that than any hand picked forum

Well after seeing the mess it creates, after spending so many hours setup'ing my industry for the past days/weeks, I'm taking a break, this is too much to take at once, I'm out. Thanks NQ for breaking the game. Prices on schematic are (already) ridiculous. So basically those who live in the EU could get those same schematic at 75,000 just because they can play earlier than me. There is no way I spend 3 times what they spent just for fun of mining some more.

Exactly, I have quit EVE Online because it was not fun, it was a job. If this becomes like that, it's over for me. Of course this is a matter of opinion as to what is fun and what is not. Games requires grinding to extend the time you need to play it, but there is a limit to what grinding is needed versus the fun it procures.

Gratz Yama, may DU be with you.