As a capital builder, currently my productions are at a crawl, but not a stop. The real struggle has been getting into the new rhythm of material gathering and procurement.
I also figured out that unless you have a dedicated wormhole corp, its not economical to do the reactions for the new Metallofullerenes so that became a mandatory import, though they’re fairly cheap as far as inputs are concerned.
The real kicker is the Capital Core Temp Regulator. Right now it costs… 5-7b to build one if you buy the smaller Core Temp Regulators and PI bits from market to build, and I don’t expect that material cost to drop below 2-ish bil ever because of how long it takes to get everything together+mat values.
THIS IS NOT A SMALL PRODUCER KILLER, but it certainly makes our lives and gameplay much more difficult, and as is the norm with many changes, disproportionately affects and disincentivizes smaller producers from trying to continue.