as far as i'm aware, there's no way to remove augments whilst preserving others. you'll have to re-augment it, and just pick the ones you want to keep whilst adding new ones you want to replace the ones you don't want. Which will require you to get other weapons with those augments on to use as templates for augmenting.

With that many augments in place though, definitely going to want augment success rate boosters.

I feel OP underestimates the fanbase/playerbase.

I played JP side for years, never premium, and whilst it took more effort to afford things, i and many many many MANY foreign players did just fine.

plus, look at other fan driven free to play mmo titles, STO is still going strong and it's a garbage fire of microtransactions and very occasional content drops.

Game will be fine.

It's just a flag. It has no wants, desires, or hatreds. I know there was a whole thing a few years ago about how the stars and stripes are a hateful symbol, and the same was touted about the Union Jack here in the UK. Utter drivel, they're simply flags that identify a nation.

Don't think on it too much, constantly considering the real world when playing an mmo will just stress you out when you should be enjoying a distraction.

We are ARKS, we fight monsters in space and goof off in the lobby. There need be nothing more than that.

So like many i was having issues getting the game to run. i eventually got those sorted with help from friends, but the final hurdle was gameguard error NP1013.

This will not help everyone, as i'm sure there are a number of programs gameguard doesn't like. But for me, the fix was simple.

I closed Netlimiter. I'd been using it to throttle the speed of epic games store, since they don't have a native setting to limit bandwidth. But Gameguard was seeing it active and erroring out. Without it running i can play.

I hope this helps a few people.