I recently noticed a huge increase in the price of the Combat droid in the Imperial Lab.
It happened over the night after completing one.
It jumped from a little more than 1 hour (around 1200 credits) to complete to 5 hours and 11000 credits!
It is very annoying because the imperial missions that were active at that time require a ton of those. The reward will not cover the costs (by a long shot).
What could have caused this huge increase?
Best Answer
This is due to a new update — according to this answer, it partially reverted to an earlier behavior.
Edit: I'll quote that answer about how prices are calculated:
Some subsequent missions are no better, which is indeed annoying (cannot show an example now). However, skipping them costs 10 bux, which is also a lot.
For me, this seems to have started with the update which introduced the new mission system, together with the promotion for imperial medals (though I didn't notice the prices were so high, so maybe it was not the case then).
Edit 2: the prices seem to have dropped back to "normal" (around ~1500/2000 bucks tops).