How to fix: The Crafting System (breaking the locks without actually removing them)

[Flawless]

@Rainman

I don’t know why you’re pushing for locks.

I am not.
I am simply showing an option that allows some type of locks to stay in the game, while still allowing players to get the exact items that they want and to circumvent every single bit of randomness that is currently involved.

@Flawless

without completely removing Perk and Blessing locks from the system (because apparently, FS do not want to do that).

Maybe you would prefer my original proposal?

How to fix: Endgame, Gear Progression and Ressource Imbalances all at once

Common complaints about the game include: lack of endgame and gear progression too much RNG in itemization makes it near impossible to get the desired items items can retroactively get bricked by balance changes that directly or indirectly affect the value of Perks and Blessings Diamantine is effectively pointless, since Plasteel is always the bottleneck As the title says, i think that these shortcomings can be solved all at once and potentially with relatively low effort. All of them would…

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@Rainman

The issue isn’t that locks exist in-materia, but rather that the system as it’s designed limits people’s ability to freely experiment and is just generally a waste of time to interact with. Your “point 1” doesn’t solve those issues, and just displaces them. People would also still have to deal with poor weapon stat rolls, so pulling the slots to get a decent roll for them would remain a source of pain same as it is now. We need far fewer gambling interactions and more free-form control.

If you do not look at point 1 in isolation, but include the other points as well, you would notice that every one of these problems is solved.
The specific things you mentioned, are solved by points 2 and 6.
If you think that i really left something out, feel free to point it out, so that i can solve that as well.

Of course, experimenting would require you to either upgrade a few greys and slap different blessing combinations on them, or to desecrate an item to swap out the 2nd blessing a bunch of times.

I would prefer if we had „test weapons“ that can be modified freely, but can only be equipped in the meatgrinder, to allow players to experiment in there, without having to waste ressources.
But this might go too far for FS, so i did not add it to the OP.
Maybe i will add it anyway.