Maybe remove it from the game or give us a way to trade resources for extra scrap as a temporary sink or something
#The purple item that boosts resources feels very unexciting to get
iron nest
heavy oxide
the bootleg replicator sucks even more because it ONLY doubles gats
shrewd kestrel
Make it scrap into other resources
cyan walrus
i cant tell you how many times ive gotten excited to see a purple item drop then getting blue balled once seeing its another fuckass replicator lmao
shrewd kestrel
Purple balled
cyan walrus
purple balled 
heavy oxide
purple triangled 🤯🤯
purple balled
iron nest
i cant tell you how many times ive gotten excited to see a purple item drop then...
I get purple balled when I pick something and it's a skin and not an upgrade