Warwick Black said: I had no problems with needing commodities for the upgrades. Being attacked while carrying them was all part of the process ...

I don't see any gratification in making things too easy ...

At present when I get a modification I want, I feel a sense of achievement for the effort that went into it. Click to expand...

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Nonsense. RNG outcome is entirely random. I have had 3 FSD upgrades that were less than a percent from maximum, one class 4, two class 5; literally back-to-back between three ships on theattempt. The third class 5 attempt was just awful. There's no skill in random chance, unless you can control the chance. We don't.To improve, I would need to keep going ad nauseum until the secondary triggered a stat pull outside of the limit. I'm driving a cutter that is 34.47ly capable out to Jaques; I can probably crack 37-38ly if I make some minor changes after I have delivered cargo.All I did was drive around a bit, shoot a bit, and collect a bit. And not die when it counted.. I didn't slay eleventy dragons or pull eleventy ships into the Great Annihilator or craft Thor's mighty hammer from the heart of a Tauri star.Drive. Shoot. Scoop. Trade.For all intents and purposes the outcomes aredue to RNG. There is no 'skill' in collecting materials. No 'skill' in outrunning AI. No real 'skill' in collecting payouts from missions. People don't get a sense of achievement, it's a sense of. Because the entire thing isin allocation of result to effort and it's a massive time sink.It's done this way on purpose to ensure longevity of mechanic; and a very non-trivial percentage of people who would otherwise invest and keep frontier going, who love the game and will follow Braben into the gates of hades itself - are having none of it.If they just added all of the engineered commodities to the commodities tables for the BGS, as this would be entirely consistent, half the issue would have been solved day one. The other half, is simply adjusting chance percentages as the community adapted to or rejected the mechanic. They could have still kept commodities and inserted them into the BGS commodity tables as of the next patch; most are already in there.As I said above, I <3 frontier but would it kill people to find just aconsistency in mechanics?