Quote Originally Posted by Dragonlord View Post
Can't the devs just modify the slips to take the augmented OR the unaugmented version (but never both). This would work by accepting the item, and making a separate mark whether you gave the augment or unaugmented version. When you go to receive the item, the game reads the additional mark and gives back the correct stage of item.
They can't. The current system cannot differentiate between different versions of the same item. It can either accept and return an item with 1 specific augment, or one without any. Because the augmented version is the final version, they chose to store that one. Given enough time, and possibly some adjustments to the augments in light of the new 2hrs, all armor pieces will be augmented. That YOU (as in the reader of this post) will not do that, is irrelevant.
And reworking the system is not possible due to the severity of the change needed and the temporary nature of the discomfort.