make stuff a lot easier to build
I cant be bothered to make a stygian thingy
I sure as hell aint going to waste 3 months making a cap ship

most people play games like this for fun
they wana log on kill stuff log off
or log on make stuff log off

this post was writen from the point of view of a teenager (your target audience)

The stygian furie mission is screaming for a rewrite, phaser was way too conservative with his rules for them, having all three die when you lose one is silly.

As for the trident well, yeah, when they have their proper features i'm going to look at making alternative methods of manufacturing.

who says the target audience is teenagers?

teenagers are mouthy and have low moral and low self esteem, tend to rage quit, and tend to think they are the target audience. I admit this describes most of itan, but otherwise, many of the player base are a more mature, self assured, less presuming crowd.

if you can't be bother to make widowmakers, then you are too lazy. not every thing should be easy. you cry like a teenager.

He's got a point. A lot of the "easier" crafting missions are part of mission trees and are one-off things like that Valent Neutron Accelerator or the Improved Mineral Scanner. Both of which you only get ONE per character, ever.