Yes, because that works out so great for Tony Stark. Nobody ever goes after him, because he keeps all of his tech to himself.
No, actually all that we'd accomplish by frittering away RPs in order to buy ourselves double-secret trump cards is that we'll have to deploy them even more often, and against greater numbers of attackers, since the tech that we've actually deployed en masse won't be able to handle things. How many more of those 35 invading ships would have landed outside the city if we didn't have two Pyndas and a dozen Gladius-Ds shredding into them? How big of a horde would we, personally, need to fight in our Mark II suit if we didn't have thousands of drones to take the brunt of the attack?
Ah, I see. So, in other words, it doesn't matter if what we're doing is effective or not, so long as we look good doing it.
Do I really need to explain why that's a bad idea?
You missunderstand. My point is that what we have deployed as of now is pretty good, and does not really need more to face off against current peer opponents barring massive numbers or weight disparity, and even then as the Pyndas show.
The problem is that we most definitely did not need cruisers as they would not be ready for action unlike Pyndas and frigate refits.
Meanwhile ensuring our personal security is more important than continuing to upstage forces we are already superior to.
As of now, with the Pyndas, and other options we have our and SA forces are pretty fucking top level, and improving them is not as critical as ensuring Revy is above most battlefield threats.
And after we get the next turn of Research we do not need more guns aside for maybe one more laser tech and should focus on beelineing MK3 not to deploy it, but for Revy to have it to secure herself.
Because at the end of the day, we can actually keep going if half or more of the galaxy drops dead. Not so if Revy does.
And as players of a character we kind of have to be in the middle of it, eventually. So we might as well ensure that when we do we have invested all we can into ensuring we personally can survive it. Better PA MKs for our sole use ensure it.
To win a war against batarians the SA does not need cruisers. Or other more exotic weapons as of now. But Revy can sure use suitability upgrades at every turn.
I am not saying we should Tony Stark it and be a fucking superhero. I am quite comfortable with selling a lesser MK, and would love to go to a hypothetical artisan crafted MK4 series for Revy once we consider selling MK3.
I am saying dumping 2000 RP in making sure that Revy has better gear than anyone else is worth it considering that we ARE Revy, and as such Revy is worth probably more than half if not the whole entire armed forces of the SA to us.
Up until now we have invested precious little into Revys personal security as opposed to general security and defenses, and as we have seen there have been multiple instances of Revy being on front lines or targeted, as such it would be prudent for us to prepare for such circumstances, and investing RP into having better than anyone gear for when it does happen is a smart choice.
The thing is that as of now we are massively outnumbered and current technology we have provided is comfortably dealing with said numerical disparity, and as such do not need more boosts, and are not really incentivized to give them fair market value once its only further increasing the massive gap between current potential enemies, that have no chance anyway once Pyndas get proliferated throughout the SA Navy.
If we were a dragon I wouldn't make such a fuss about our gear but we are unfortunately not, unless the great GM allows for the Awakening bringing forth the Sixth age to happen when Revy is on Earth and for some reason for Revy to have a chance as wakeing up as a Dragon. Don't as me how. She is a magical space fairy already, being a Dragon would be the obvious thing.
2000 RP we can pay up faster than trying to get on Asari Matriarch, Krogan Battlemaster or N7 OTL Shepard levels, and if we do get to that badass level it only compounds it.
