Talk:Exceptional Sentient Core Conversion/@comment-94.221.226.45-20180202094708/@comment-2600:8804:80C1:504C:E18B:4E57:988A:557B-20180203083945

I don't think you are reading it right, the build yeilds two exceptional cores (1,000 standing) for two intact cores (200 standing) and one of each eidolon gem. Each eidolon gem build also takes 3 raw gems and 10k credits, but yeilds three cut gems so if you combine both of those blueprints and do some math ultimately your build costs are around 16k credits and 1/2 of each raw eid gem to transform one intact sentient core into an exceptional one. It is not nearly as bad as you think, but one could still argue it is hardly worth it unless they have a lot of extra eid gems.

This seems intended for players who struggle to find nights and teams to farm quill standing or only play solo. I personally feel it may have been nicer to make them easier to build using more common materials such as morphics and then use longer 1-12hr build times to give more casual players a bit of an easy passive way to make more standing over time. Crafting eid gems also takes a decent investment in ostron reputation and gates off a large number of the players who just want amps and could really use this to help them farm quill rep so it seems a tad self defeating. I thought DE once said in a devstream that they wanted the two reputations independant for maximum player choice.