I noticed it immediately, because while many people kept telling me "It's not worth it", they were dead wrong. I did missions. So many missions, I lost count. While doing them, I just grabbed whatever was lying around. I had 50 elements in about as much time as it took to run 5 or 6 missions. It truly wasn't difficult to find at all (though this method may be regarded as "farming"). But it's how I played the game. Then, every Tuesday, I would turn in my excess (keeping 50 of each on hand just in case I needed to upgrade). At 25 rep and 3 marks, I made 50% of the 100 weekly cap with a single transaction with the QM. Bonus, too, if I did Nightfall first. But the kicker was the 25 rep, because that's 3 missions I didn't have to do to make up for it. I was really pissed off with materials selling because I felt this catered to the Tuesday Crowd, who came in, saw they didn't get what they wanted for the week, then left the game entirely. I played. Every. Single. Day. This method had my ex-character at 30+ VG (I recently deleted the character because I didn't really like the look of it). Now, I'm 5 and with this new "commendation" crap coming down the pike, I feel I may have just shot myself in the foot. Yeah, I want the ability to sell it back returned, but I guess this is just another "WE'RE GOING TO REMOVE EVERYTHING YOU DID FROM THE GAME, GUARDIAN! GET OUT THERE AND DO IT AGAIN (FIGHT)!" Pathetic and insulting, and I'm trying to keep a civil tongue. The real word I want to use is [b]bullshit[/b].