Yea. I guess you also go around and tell people that the BMW M3 is a terrible car, as the first production run, when it was released in 1986, had a number of problems?
Also my point of view. Engineers by now are not that bad grind any more. The old system of being able to pour an unlimited number of resources into it, always hoping for a better roll of random-on-random was a terrible grind. By now it's more manageable and you can succeed without grinding.
Guardian stuff on the other hand, by design, is grind. Only one activity can get you the stuff, there is no alternative to it and the activity has no real variation to it, too. The first few times it's actually fun and a challenge. Once you have figured things out, it becomes very boring. The very definition of grind.
Hmm. How to answer that? Let's start from the botton, of "needing" all the things: I know i have written the same thing seveal times already. Sometimes as reply to your postings. I don't know if you have ever read it, if you choose to ignore it, if i am on your ignore list or whatever. But i try one more time:
Whenever a new ship comes around in the game, i buy and equip it, do not engineer one single piece but rather take it directly to a HAZRes site. I then fight enemies of all sizes and combat ranks, to see what the new ship can do. Due to not having engineered defenses, i don't attack wings of enemies. That's where the lack of engineering would actually put me at a problematic spot. But i fared well enough against any non-winged target.
Based on that i dare to say that combat still is very much possible and enjoyable without any engineering at all. Of course that's just my personal experience, but as i am a mediocre pilot at best, i would guess that most other players are able to do the same.
And now to the harder part: You repeatedly give feedback based on outdated information. You refuse to experience the newer status quo, despite knowing that things were changed. You have no intention to actually return to the game. What is your agenda? Why do you still stick around here, if you dislike the game?
Mind you, i also think that the current power of engineering blueprints is bad for the game. I keep saying that. (Getting them nerfed would be part of my agenda, but I also am aware that this is unlikely to happen.) But my statements are based on the actual status of the game, not on how things were in a distant past.
So really, what are you trying to achieve by complaining about things which already were changed?
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