Eli, you still don't get it, so let me try it again.
I don't give fuck-all about the value of my current items. Price hasn't changed much on a few of them, if at all (low mid-level gear has that tendency
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When I started (and I see you been here longer than I have) you could loot your gear, or at least have a decent chance at looting next level gear. My one and only 'weapon upgrade' loot in 3 1/2 years of playing was my Delta, over 2 1/2 years ago. Trust me, I've been trying ever since for anything better.
Same with my armor, best I could ever loot was the TT gremlin stuff. Had to buy my nemesis.
Now SGA rolls around. Again, no chance of really upgrading without spending a SHITLOAD of money just buying the crap... no chance of looting what I need (better weapon/fap/rest of the armor - and trust me, I've been trying.).
Well shit. My next level weapon upgrade is gonna cost me ~10k ped (easily). Same with next level armor upgrade (jag I think? Phantom/ghoul costly in terms of decay...). And likewise with fap - although with a Fap69 SGA the price gap dropped from waaayy high to ~5k ped.
Now Enhancers were announced as a way to 'tier up' and not have to spend as much as it would cost to upgrade to next level gear (don't care if those words weren't used, that was the general consensus from all I spoke with). Now this shit comes out.
So let me make sure you also get THIS part straight. SGA released a VERY finite number of items. I looted a martial SGA M thighguards, I also purchased a Delta SGA.
In order to upgrade EITHER, I have to find, negotiate, and purchase an equal part of SGA (again, a very finite volume) in order to unlock ONE tier. And the Delta SGA is by no means an uber weapon - just a small nice upgrade from regular Delta.
The level of idiocy required on MA's part to think that ANY of us would be dumb enough to even WANT to deplete/destroy these ONE TIME-PERIOD DROPPED ITEMS is appalling and downright scary.
The same also goes with non-SGA gear of any 'decent' level. I have no idea if you can end up modding pixie to be nemesis+ quality, nor if you can mod gremlin to be jaguar+ quality - that data isn't available yet to me. Anything over gremlin (i.e., nemesis) VIRTUALLY DOESN'T DROP ANYMORE. Even one person tiering up, by the very simple process of supply and demand, removes supply from the pool and creates more demand - and no, it isn't the players. PLEASE don't give me the "It's the players" crap. MA controls the drops, controls the volume of what exists - PERIOD. Price is set by the volume (supply/demand scenario). tt+300k at one time for an UL Emik X5 was a good price... then another 10 or so dropped
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, and I think I saw one sell for <150k a few months back.
Put simply, this tier system is NOT fair - and I don't just mean for the person wanting to tier up something that's halfway decent to begin with - it's the entire epitome of selfishness and greed, to force someone who wants to make something 'just a little better' to remove a duplicate of it from the common pool of players, with full knowledge that it has a 99.9999_% chance of NOT appearing again in the loot.
What do I think should be the fix? Perhaps a craftable component that specifically unlocks tiers... in conjunction WITH all the other ingredients already listed.
I'll state now I have no qualms spending 100-300+ ped per unlock for my delta SGA, especially if the enhancers work even half as good as expected. Same with my armor, fap, other weapons - etc. I only have a MAJOR and (hopefully) FULLY understandable upset that we have to destroy/consume NON-DROPPING ITEMS in order to do so...
I hope that gets my point across a lot clearer. G'nite.
