Top 3 things you would like changed, fixed or added?

Remove Randomness from Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering is an interesting idea, but the current implementation has one major issue: randomness means that you will sometimes have long streaks of bad luck. I believe this is a bigger issue than the designers expected when they created the system.

There are two main reasons that this is a problem:
1. People expect to be lucky, so when they get a new schematic "early" it seems normal, but when they have a long streak of bad luck, it is incredibly unpleasant.

2. People like to see progress toward a goal, rather than just knowing that they have a small chance of being successful. This is what makes a grind much more tolerable - knowing that you're further along toward a goal than you were before.

My suggestion is to change the reverse engineering system from a "20% chance" type of system to a "do it 5 times" type of system. I believe this still allows for the option of pleasant surprises (small chance of success earlier than the listed amount), but removes the problems listed above. It also allows for new options, such as requiring the reverse engineering of several different items before a new schematic is available (example: combo stims that require reverse engineering two different types of stims to learn the schematic).

Of course, there's an impact to the interface where we have to find a new way to show goals toward schematics and how far along toward that goal you are, but I think this would fit with the stated desire to revamp the crafting interface to accommodate large numbers of schematics.

Note that a less impactful alternative would be to have a hidden counter that keeps track of your reverse engineering and caps bad luck streaks. However, I think this would not fully resolve the issues, especially those related to perception of progress.

Stand at ease.