"_Marec_;c-2461703" wrote:
As the game has progressed, more bottlenecks have been added so it just makes sense for older ones like ship/reg omegas to be eased. No one starting the game today wants to reasonably hear it'll take 5 years to catch up.
Plus, Op has a good suggestion of adding things like ship omegas, even other currencies, to shipments. This is a great idea. Let people buy what they need the same way kyros can be bought from multiple shops.
No new bottlenecks have been added for ships though. All the old bottlenecks - including single shard farming, omegas, and prestige are all still there and there's no further advancement available to a ship after those things have been maxed out (aside from pilot gear/relics which is another matter entirely).
I'm not saying it should forever be the grind that it is now, but until there's another way to upgrade ships I don't see them easing any of the old pinch points. Gear bottlenecks only got eased after relics came along - and even then it took them years to do it. Now that many of us are over the worst of the gear hump, signal data is dragging us all down to a crawl. There's no analog to that for ships though.