Be the patient hunter. I have the advantage now- no sense blowing it.
Wait for him.
You sit up and get into a kneeling position but otherwise you don't move. You hear something banging around in the store, a crushing and crunching sound but the worker is still nowhere to be seen. Hmm.
"What. How does that make sense?! I'm not buying the whole thing put together, just the parts that make it!
Gah, whatever. How much would it cost to get a MKIII without the rockets?"
"Well, it makes sense because you are a little independent consumer without all the massive discounts for buying in bulk and doing military work that the production companies have. You're also not producing them so fast and so common that you can afford to sell them with barely any profit and still make money. The only real way for you to get these parts individually is to buy them as replacement parts, and they sell those at like 150%, 200% profit because, well, they can.
Also, why do you want a MKIII without one if it's defining features? Also it will cost basically the same because all I'm gonna do is go in back and strip the rockets off a standard MKIII"
((A laser rifle has three FC. One FC is one token. The rifle is two token.))
(( Yeah, looks like it's finally been confirmed.
Another example: the heavy gauss cannon is 10 token. It has 4 power generators, each is worth 4 tokens if bought on its own. Speaking of which, would someone here want that barrel and other mechanical stuff of the HGC? ))
((I do remember there being something about laser rifles and gauss rifles being ridiculously overproduced, explaining their really low prices. The same probably applies to the heavy gauss cannon and several other weapons - they're so common that they get sold for about 75% off, while the separately available parts cost more due to being new or something.))
There are some good in game reasons, such as great amounts of already finished products and the fact that larger companies can all get discounts from eachother and make a cheaper product as a result, but the gameplay reason is that if they cost as much as their individual components cost things would be massively expensive. A battlesuit would be in the range of 100 or more tokens.
((if only I had 4 tokens. Oh and what does my character look like?))
See if the rifle can be turned into a bomb if possible, if not see if the power of the laser can be increased.
Well, the easiest way to turn your rifle into a bomb is to buy a low power nuclear weapon and duct tape it to the rifle. There's not really much inside the rifle thats terribly explosive.