If we're going to discuss the Credit grind/economy, we should also look to improve other grinds, like Forma

Call me crazy, but Forma are as much a pain as Credits to me, if not more. This mainly comes from the fact that I just had the chance to jump back in from a hiatus a week or so back (console scrub hello!) and now Kuva Liches are a big pain I have to deal with. I so enjoy getting their weapon only to have to wait 5 full days to fully max it out, even though getting it to 30, 32, etc after each forma takes me less than a half hour. The grind is just not fun or enjoyable in any sense when I'm just stuck constantly waiting.

Yeah, sure, one could say I should just have spares built, but I'm still working my way through all the Dojo weapons that require forma to build, while also trying to make strong and proper builds on my gear. I also can't have a perfect system of checking back in every 24 hours to immediately start the next Forma build and capitalize on that time to the extreme.

Going off the Wiki for Forma, one would need a total of 78 Forma to build one of every blueprint that requires one to build. But we can get technical and stick to just the things that give Mastery, effectively removing 7 from the total (4 for Aura Forma, 2 for Exilus Adapter, 1 for Greater Focus Lens) and bringing us to 71 Forma. That's 71 days of just build time, or 1,704 hours, and I'm gonna not break that time down further.

This is completely ignoring the fact that plenty of players will likely build a Greater Focus Lens at some point, if not several. Or the fact that Paracesis and all of the Kuva weapons require 5 Forma to get all the MR from them (that's 70 extra forma to the total), and to likely get that far in the game most players will probably have put at least 1 forma into a weapon, frame, pet or something at that point, though I suppose that could be argued.

It's also relevant to mention that no one is going to be playing for the exact 24 hours that they build, obviously that continues on in the background while we're off in other games or sleeping or working or anything else; that's nice at least. But it still doesn't go any faster, it just continues to happen at the same pace as a background process, still being a barrier from me actually building anything that requires forma. It simply just doesn't require us to be online the entire time, thank goodness.

I personally have used 75 forma across my frames, weapons, and pets, and that's just what still remains in my inventory to this day, I'm sure the actual total is larger. That's a hell of a lot of time invested for a single item just to get precious MR that's already gated behind the build time of those particular weapons, frames, etc.

And sure, it's entirely fair to say that lower MR players probably shouldn't have super active access to plenty of forma because then it further trivializes the early/mid game. I get it, I don't disagree, somewhat at least. But there's certainly ways around that, like making it so build times go down after a certain MR, or allowing us access to an item akin to the ol' Nutrio Incubator that allowed us to take pets out of stasis much faster that'll take build times down. Or even a later game blueprint for several forma like the 10x Cipher BP we can get.

This is obvious nitpicking, but it's still important to talk about. There's a million things DE has done well, a million things they've done poorly, and a million things they can continue to improve on. I will forever be of the mindset that taking more time to revisit older content and systems and fixing/improving on them will fare better for the game than constantly pushing out new content that stops being new and shiny after a few days because they didn't have/take the time to polish it enough.

^(Next time we can discuss how Invasions are pretty outdated and should get an update of some sort)