I welcome that the 14k buff is finally over. It was too much, as ingame realities showed.
In my opinion the biggest mistake with this buff was the near- total buff of Junker activity. Alg were the losers by a big margin even though scrap is also their main roleplay.
In numbers.: Junkers go to Valetta: 14k. Alg to an Img guard base in Tau44 with ~160 k cruise attached for 9k (just to realize it is guard iff). If I were Karst, I'd have been furious about this exclusiveness.
About the current pricing:
Echo wrote that there will be an overhaul of the mining system. That's necessary. Karst? Didn't you volunteer to do miming devving? This would be the chance to get things right this time for Alg and to get a fair balance between all the Scraplovers in the game.