I returned a few months ago and started taking up Crew Skills, mostly to make the mods and things that go into the slots in my modifiable pieces. I only make the Assembly Components to skill up.
Now, I've taken up the three skills that need Scavenging in tandem after they hit 300. All to 350, then 400 etc. At 500-550 the Assembly Components for Cybertech and Armstech progressed in the usual way, first orange con and then yellow through 550. But now when I'm doing Armormech, I found that it went green con well before 520, and so will be a lot more costly to get up to 550 as I have to do the Scavenging Crew Skill mini-quest things to get the materials. I noticed the same thing elsewhere earlier, but at such low levels that it didn't really register, since the cost was so low.
Is this a known thing, or a bug that will be fixed? It's the same materials used for all three Assembly Components, so the color con gradient must have been set manually and not being calculated just based on the materials used, I guess.