reading this makes me think that inventions has a committee problem. too many people that have their own agenda and are bound and determind to have their individual ideas and parts (dumbbutts task force, miss stupid's story arc, etc) be required or they will pout and try to destroy what the rest of the group is trying to do. I fear that CoX is going to turn into a sony game style of way to complicated and too much work for very very little return and or the out of control inflation in the econ system making players struggle to get massive amounts of influence to afford lvl 1 receipes.