Yup agreed as well. Especially when you are starting from level 1 again and dont have much resources, you will need to deconstruct to get the resources for an upgrade. There was once I forgot, went ahead and deconstructed a bunch of other armor and couldnt swap it out, man that was frustrating... Constructed another suit that I didnt want, wore it, deconstruct the current one, made the new one then swap out and deconstruct the temp one. So annoying.
Perhaps bioware have a construction mechanism that give the option of using your previous armor as a base to add on for the improvement. So for example if you need 100 units of platinum for construction, the previous one will have 80 if deconstructed, all you need now is the excess 20. Augs will automatically go back to the inventory. Since you cant construct weapons or armor for your squad, it just doesnt make sense to keep the lower version.
@VladVonCastein wrote:
give the option of using your previous armor as a base to add on for the improvement.
This.
I know hyperbole is pretty common across the internet; but the moment I realized that I had to salvage my old gear and craft new stuff from scratch instead of just upgrading it with the appropriate materials? That was the moment I fully realized the game was going to have fundamental flaws at the UX level.
