Quick crafting questions

[Marchalis]

Am I missing something?
1. I have soooo many quick hack components to craft with... but I get gold/orange quickhacks up the wazoo anyhow, so... what is the point of these, other than converting them for a little tech xp?

2. Tier 5 weapons that you can craft, can't be upgraded to 5++, so... they seem completely useless.. am I missing something about them? there is usually a 5+ lootable of any weapon randomly, but common enough, making crafted non icon variants seem very useless..

[psionyx]

Personally, I found the crafting QH useful when you just switch to a new tier of cyberdeck, and need to fill out the upgraded versions of your QH roster, assuming you didn't randomly get them all from a node. Which usually there were at least 1 or 2 QH's that I didn't find for free of a higher tier. Beyond that though....money. Sure there is the engineering XP, but the component:sell value ratio for those Tier 5 QH's is nuts. I EASILY hit like 3 million eddies just from taking a few minutes to scale craft up all my components to the Tier 5 level, and then just spammed the QH with the highest sell value. They cost like 12 components and sell for like 25k I think? And I don't know about you but I had a PILE of components very early on as a netrunner. So yeah they basically just solved any and all of my cash problems.

Beyond that, yeah I really don't know. 2.0+ has seriously borked and changed the entire netrunning aspect of the game, making it very strange.

[orcaa]

Originally posted by Marchalis:

Am I missing something?
1. I have soooo many quick hack components to craft with... but I get gold/orange quickhacks up the wazoo anyhow, so... what is the point of these, other than converting them for a little tech xp?

2. Tier 5 weapons that you can craft, can't be upgraded to 5++, so... they seem completely useless.. am I missing something about them? there is usually a 5+ lootable of any weapon randomly, but common enough, making crafted non icon variants seem very useless..

well i guess you could just craft hacks and sell them for money.

[Morgian]

The only purpose of crafting weapons is to have one you can trick out with mods you like. Removing the upgrading from normal weapons means pretty much you will be carrying iconic ones.