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I don't think they fully understand the implications of this boneheaded maneuver. No industrialist is going to spend any more money on expensive schematics until the damage is known. Completely ridiculous for me to spend 90 million on setting up a pipeline just to compete against someone who can do it almost for free. 

I have no choice but to wait a month or two for the markets to settle and if I keep playing just to hoard up my cash until then. When all industrialists do that, the shortage of elements that people are complaining about will just get worse (except for the ones with "free" schematics). If people can't buy the stuff they need, then they quit too. The cascade effect of this is really pretty bad. JC should be pissed, as his vision for the post 0.23 economy just got flushed down the toilet.

COMPLETE BULLSHIT   lemme start there. So people that exploited this and made billions will get away with it, and the honest people get punished.  I thought the COVID patch  (AKA .23 patch) was a slap in the face of the players. This is a hold my beer moment and watch this slap in the face.   What you just relayed to players was not good.  I hope many people feel the same way and post on here, Not that you will listen or care NQ but your quickly destroying your players trust. 

Better communication would go a long way here. Bugs happen and there could be many reasons that correcting the exploit is too time consuming or difficult. A big issue is that none of that is communicated to the player base. 
 
Bug post-mortems help improve user trust. A few questions:
 
How heavily was the issue exploited?
 
What was a general description of the cause and what tools are being put in place to reduce the chance it will happen again?
 
The rationale for 0.23 was that it would reduce mega factories and increase nanoformer market activity. At the time it was stated that no group in game would be able to afford all of the schematics (~150 billion quanta iirc). After the price reduction and this bug, are you worried that this is no longer true? Are you concerned that groups have reached the industry end game again?

Fiffly bits, you are correct in your points i agree. how heavily was it exploited i have seen multiple screen shots with people with 112 warp beacon schematics. That's just 1 person with over 8 billion in schematics. 
 
But my biggest point is the MOST players on here have dedicated a lot of time to build up their wealth and this EXPLOIT negates all that.  And i hope a lot of people leave because of this.  Why should most of us continue to work hard, when in 15mins some players raced past us and amassed great wealth just by being on at the right time to buy.  That 15 minute window.  So that's the problem and NQ's hope to just say no its fine we just gonna leave it.  I want them to FINALLY hear this community. I hope all of the players keep the pressure on. The answer that was given is bullshit and NQ needs to do better

If we click on the word "market", it will group the markets of each planet together, alternatively we can click on the word "distance" and it will show the planet we are currently on at the top.  Probably not quite what you are asking for but its workable for now.

NQ has already taken a stance on this issue, this situation is akin to when people were blocking the warp gates or building walls around districts. This is intentional griefing/considered to be pvp (inside a safe zone) because of the intent to "attack" other player's ships, NQ has made it clear that this isn't allowed.