The cost of materializing has always been 60%. It is also evident that reviving more than twice without paying an energy pack gives an incredible advantage.
With the June Update it was ~25% what allowed ALL Pilots to remat up to 4x when pod and not directly run back to the E-Field. Where exactly did this put anyone into the advantage aside from needing less E-Packs to buy?
Now with the August Update it´s back to the old Version that Pilots WITHOUT the Supernova Membership can only remat 1x while Supernova User can remat up to 3x... i would say this gives now an advantage that is "payed via gold" and would lead back to the "the pilots with Supernova need less E-Packs to purchase if they pod".
The main solution is to increase the value of the spheres, mainly in Sirius and Tau Ceti.
Again why only the "Endgame systems"? Some Missions lead back to previous systems with "drips of Energy" for higher level Pilots that have to deal with TC Units in those missions so that 1 Pod means basicly from your E-Cap only 40% remain for the whole Mission.
Alone Dark Prem is a mission that takes "ages to complete" (around 30 mins), plays in Antares and spawns in regular intervals Mission units that have to be killed. If the mission does fail at any point and a Pilot had to remat at least 1 time it would mean to travel back to TC in order to refill and then travel back to Antares to restart the mission.
Some missions did allow now to pod at least 1 time before directly runing to the next E-Field cus you still had enough E left to continue the Mission and even if we have now the double E-Cap in reverse it just means instead of 3 mins of shoting Pilots have now 6 mins of shoting before they have to consider refilling again.
E-Cell values need to scale with the Pilots levels instead of being bound to the planets they are related to so that no matter in what system the Pilot is he can always refill properly. Sure an Ult/Nova Membership user may not care about that due of 100% Flat but every pilot below those Memberships has now to care about it due of the nerfed %-reduction and non Membership users even more now.