I view it as removing a built-in hardpoint (and the thing that occupies it, a basic front sight) especially since several other mods are more advanced sights.

Yeah this game doesn't seem to have any attachments that don't require hard points, even when the "attachment" is nothing of the sort like filed front sights or a serrated edge.

It's likely a game-balance thing, with the idea being that if there wasn't a Hard Point requirement, then you'd have just about everyone taking those modifications.

In a system like this that uses numbers and scores to represent abstract processes, it's not difficult to think of hard points as the number of ways you change (remove or add) a piece of equipment before it becomes unusable.

Filing off the front sight costing a hard point doesn't bother me in the least.

In a system like this that uses numbers and scores to represent abstract processes, it's not difficult to think of hard points as the number of ways you change (remove or add) a piece of equipment before it becomes unusable.

Filing off the front sight costing a hard point doesn't bother me in the least.

What if I used a really good file?