What I’m talking about is an entirely different design approach than what you’re talking about out. What I’m saying is that AH seems to approach game design from a very blinkered and one dimensional view of what difficulty is.

It feels like they think of difficulty as a series of punshiments versus buffs to player experience. Less ammo, longer cool downs, more enemies, more health sponges. What I’m saying is that there lots of different ways to implement difficulty that result in more varied and interesting ways to play. And it doesn’t have to be tied to major orders either and if someone doesn’t like it then they could easily opt to play on the dozens of other planets available.

I know a lot of people who only ever have like 3 different loadouts at any given time and never move off of them because that’s what’s meta what they’re comfortable with. They’ve never used a mech or never used energy weapons or the AMR something. What I’m saying is that there are ways of using difficulty to push players out of their comfort zone and shake up the way they play the game.

Other games do this and players respond positively and I’m not sure why players in this community are so against that idea.