I'll preface this by saying that you guys need to absolutely take this down several notches, and chill out. This system has been out for 4 days, and just about everyone here farmed for an hour and called it quits, so these are some pretty strong opinions that you have, based on very little evidence. Speaking of evidence, I'll remind you (again) that we're going to take some polls and do some analysis on how things are going this weekend, to see if I need to act and change anything.
Additionally, I've already warned you guys in this very thread what happens when you cry wolf for six months straight about something. First you cried that there was too much RNG, now you want it back. Then you cried that the drop rates were too low, now you want them back. Now that you have decent drops and something you can actually see progress with, you want to go back to just gambling over and over, or cheesing the system with UD3, popo boxes, and quest stones.
It had to stop sometime and go to a fair system that gives me other options than just drop rate and success rate for modification, and I'm sorry you don't like that, but given that you guys have railed against literally every option you've been given, it's difficult to put stock in what you say. It's especially difficult because of how emotional you guys get about the upgrade system, which is still puzzling to me, but this is why I put discord on slow mode when it comes up. You guys can't seem to be objective about this system.
I have said this multiple times in this thread alone. In the coming months I'll work on some changes to incentivize partying up. That said, there's nothing about this system that's forcing you to play solo. Be glad we're working so hard to give you guys more options so you can play how you choose, instead of attacking multi client and disabling it.
Your assumption is that the only thing players will ever do in game is farm for upgrades, because that's all you do. That isn't the case. The system is designed to increment slowly, and let people play the way they want, and improve their gear over time. I must have said this hundreds of times, but I'll say it again: You guys need to get with the program that you will not always be able to have the best gear in the game in five minutes. I don't know how many times I'm going to have to repeat that before you guys get it, but I have to say it dozens of times every day, and at every event.
Thank you for being reasonable about this whole thing. I aimed high on the costs because we just injected almost 2 million dollars worth of cash points into the economy, and I'd rather be safe than sorry. People are dealing primarily with cash points right now, which is why things are relatively zeni cheap. This is why some players are having an easier time with +15 than others. That said, the power is in your hands. If you don't want the cashers to do so well, just don't sell your upgrade kits.
The point of this thread is to gather feedback, but if the feedback you give me is purely emotion driven, and you haven't tested the system, and only hate it because it's new or different or a little harder, the feedback is useless to me. I have been begging you guys for months now to take a step back from how emotional you get about the upgrade system. I don't know what it is about upgrading that makes you all so miserable and emotional, but you need to just take a deep breath about the whole thing. You guys are ruining this experience for yourselves by being so wrapped up in all this negativity.