All this max synergy ship BS makes me want to puke, and everything these days requires that. I don’t like flying max synergy ships since to me, they feel “done,” and I have plenty more left to level, even though I’ve been with the game (off, and on) for about three years now. The events for those three types of weapons that got introduced a ways back, the Nyx event, and when the rank eight destroyers were introduced got me interested in the game again. Since then, it’s been all downhill, with new frustrations being added onto the old ones, resulting in far less play time, and sapping my will to spend any money.
Like open space, I like it, mostly, more than the other game modes, but with all these new changes, you seem to just be taking a piss on open space, like if you want us to forget it’s there. Those events I liked had me doing a lot in open space, now, nothing involves open space, and you’re removing some of the benefits it had, like reducing the monocrystal rewards. The thing I don’t like about open space, is what I don’t like about open world “PvP” in other games, it’s not PvP, just ganking. Just do what some other games have done, and make the PvP part optional, want to do it, flag yourself for it when you leave the hanger, don’t want to be picked on by rank 15, armed to the death gank squads, don’t flag yourself for “PvP.”
Then there’s suppose to be little green “!” icons in the ship tree for ships, and ranks that have special missions, but it’s only showing for ships I don’t have. Like the destroyer ones, the icon is there for the ones I don’t have, but not for the ones I do. Not that I have any will to do those missions, since they are all more of that max synergy BS anyhow.
Last i checked Ingineers “repair / fix” other ships.