grand plover
I like the upgrade system in this game but it currently can encounter a substantial flaw: You can be offered new modules in your open slots, none of which you want as your only options all at once.
This isn't a very likely scenario as early on, all the build options are open and you're likely to adapt to your offered choices, but while proceeding through the early game you can encounter a Yellow airdrop that forces a slot to be "bricked" and either unimportant or actively anti-synergistic in what you end up having to fill it with.
My suggestion is to give players the option to reroll the Yellow part Airdrop choices into the generic Blue Airdrop stat upgrades, so builds can be forced a little harder and runs can aim for a higher potential ceiling but at a significant cost to the time it takes to get online. I think it would make for a good, greedy risk/reward option that curbs bad RNG.
Other ways to address this issue outside of a reroll could also be guaranteeing at least one option to always be an upgrade to an existing part if possible, but with the split upgrade paths it'd run the risk of only being half a solution.
radiant terrace