I do agree about preparing for fed and having a strategy and being prepared weapon wise and that's what we try to do.
But there's a difference between hard and lengthy and downright unfair. From what I've seen people are too scared to craft because of how easy you can lose all that progress. I do understand crafting adds more economy and opportunity to make money for people who craft and sell and that's great, but for the people who try to craft their own gun and be independent it's too much effort and time to lose. I know the counter argument of "cops have to work for Navids etc" but I've seen people climb up the ranks in a matter of days and then they have access to high caliber weapons which are cheap.
Personally I don't really care about getting higher caliber weapons as a MK18 works fine, I'm just speaking from what I've heard.
I love to see other people's opinion but I think we continue to talk about the ramming on this post and not crafting.