I am not against better sights but I am against better sights as standard. With the exception of the laser rifle and the plasma cannon, current sights are fine.

Iron sights have been used for over 100 years to great effect at ranges well beyond what we have in DUST. They are cheap, easy to use, and nearly indestructible. But most importantly, they're cheap. When you need to arm hundreds of thousands of soldiers, you don't give them top of the line optics, they get the cheapest thing you can find that will work every time. That's just economics.

To give you a comparison, a quality set of iron sights for a modern assault rifle will run you about $100 US. A quality red dot that will hold zero on impact and not break under typical grunt abuse is more like $500. Assuming you have a quarter of a million individuals that need rifles, it would cost you an additional $100 million to give them red dots over irons.

Now consider that many of those individuals will probably never fire their weapon in combat because they have jobs in rear supply type positions. Is it really with it?

tl;dr yes give us better sights but only with weapon customization. No to better standard sights.

Marines qualify with iron sights.. Because every Marine is a rifleman first. Marines spend more time than any other branch learning to shoot.

Actually many US servicemen have to buy their own optics. Only a few units can get them in significant numbers.

Also, optics break, they lose zero, batteries die, tritium dims out, fiber optics lose light and don't work, holographic sights can be seen by your target. Iron sights don't have these problems very often. And if they do then more often then not the cause of it also damaged the weapon beyond a point where it can be safely shot. I know this because I have experienced every single one of these problems and the only thing you can fix quickly in the field is changing batteries.

And EMP? Really? We can shield electronics from EMP now, why has this ability suddenly vanished in New Eden?

@Zekain Kade: I'm not saying that we shouldn't have them. I'm just saying that they shouldn't be standard. And ccp shouldn't slap a band-aid on by making it standard now and taking it away later. Just save it for weapon customization.