Pixonic has the technology to MM appropriately...

I wonder if that's what it defaults to at the beginning of each month. I never minded it but I remember that plenty hated that as well.

Funny you mention this. As I look back to the time when the game was fun and try to figure out where it all went so wrong, the pattern I see is that the more new gear I acquired in order to keep up with everybody else's new gear, the less fun the game became. It was a death spiral that finally reached the breaking point right around the time I leveled up my third sharttrain. It was like the path to the final destruction of the game I once loved was finally complete.

As you may have seen in another thread, I restored my last main hangar from game center and tried to resume from where I left off. It took less than a day for all the seething hate and loathing to return. So it got deleted again.

Now I just delete and restart the game, try different start-up strategies, play to about lvl 15, delete and start over again. 15 seems to be about where MM starts really screwing with you and people start playing stupid. Maybe I'll go a bit longer, as long as games remain tolerable. Since I have nothing invested except a few hours of playing time, I have no problem scrapping it all. And since I know I'm not going very far when I start over, I might blow all that early fast gold like a drunken sailor, or I might hang onto it and see if I can grab something fun before flushing it all down the crapper again. But I never have more than 2 hangar slots. It's a whole lot more fun, and it costs $0.

now to this point, I say it is becoming almost like a job.  you have to constantly be upgrading and grinding for new gear that you never really get to enjoy the game nor hit a stopping point where you can just play.