We let our players choose their playstyle. We know our economy system needs a rework, and in future crafting should make more sense.

Buying blueprints and crafting the parts yourself is cheaper in the long run. Buying all parts for a really bad preserved tank can cost up to 40-50k or even more. So after maybe 8 - 10 repairs it would have been cheaper to buy the blueprints instead of parts.

If I repair the tanks with crafted parts I have no costs at all. Scrapmetal can be found in the scrapyard or you simply scrap one of the tanks you find in extraction missions. You can also buy the cheap wrecks and salvage their parts (and turn them into scrap metal too).