Seriously, it's been a year. It's been a year since they removed the interesting and fun nuances from weapons and shields and it's seriously boring to not have the option of customizing your ship besides your QT speed. It takes SC back several years to the time when components didn't exist. Seriously, I am tired of seeing this. All manufacturers producing the exact carbon copy products of each other kills immersion when it comes to kitting out our ships. "For rebalancing" is a fine excuse for a month, two months, three months, four months, 6 months- it's closing on A YEAR. Please, bring variety back to weapons and shields. And to those who say shields already have variety again: They technically do, but also not really. 115K hp = 1440 regen. Always. 100K hp = 1320 regen. Always. The only actual variable is the component's actual HP and in 99% of cases who cares about that. Seriously, it's time to give us weapons and shields back, any excuse other than "It's coming in 3.18" is a tired story at this point. Edit: I am MEGA positive about SC'S development. I love every (bug free) second in the game. But a year of data collection is no longer a feasible excuse. Please CIG, let us customize weapons and shields again or at the very least give us an update on why you can't.