[booji]

Yes this is a potential disadvantage for those at the very top who have lots of roids and may find they are always rushing to catch up with HCT for most players though it does not make that much difference. There are sections of the tech tree xans can (and I am sure did) ignore such as cov ops and scans, additionally in most stats sets (including this) they don't need heavy hulls. I am not sure this change can really be used to account for changes in cat eff (particularly since government changes are admin driven while stats changes are usually player driven).