Yet another post about this topic and im gonna try to condense it as much as possible. Legendary +20 Arrow of super duper lightning speed should not be the goal of the game. The ship balance is already troubled so no need to make things even worse. Being able to craft a vehicle weapon and reforging stats aka +20% alpha -20% velocity should be fine. Being able to find rare recipes for like NDBs that require high quality materials to produce should be good enough already. (at least once component duping is gone (good luck CIG)) But a simple +50% stat increase is not. But for what reason do we need Tiered ships / components? Pledged ships that we paid money for are T1. Tier 2-5 does what exactly except making balance more difficult and generally more unfair? What about insurance for my Legendary +20 Arrow of super duper lightning speed? Lets just hope there isnt any. BTW tiered crafting is usually seen in f2p mmorpgs with cash shop items that allow for safe upgrades and stuff. Not an alpha people already spent almost a billion on. Pretty much a kick in the arse as a thank you imo. This post is my personal opinion and my statements are made to the best of my knowledge.