I'm not yet 50, and have just been following this debate on the forums, but I was wondering...
You say it takes 2+ hours to make the blue nonreuseable stim. How long does it take to gather all the mats for the reusable stem? Would this not be factored into the price of a BOE version? I would think you could make quite a large amount of credits selling the reusables. If the reuseables take 1-2 days gathering mats, it would take a long time to outfit your entire servers population.