[b][i]Farming for cores should not be an endgame activity.[/b][/i] Players are hording their cores because the cost of infusion is far to high. Near the end of last season, after I had reached max light I spent a considerable amount of play time farming for cores. I did Spider's bounties every week. I did every scrapper bounty, used every matterweave as well as dismantling items for cores. Why was I doing it? In preparation for [b][i]THIS[/b][/i] season. That's ridiculous. At the start of this season I decided I wasn't upgrading anything until I was getting 700 gear drops. The only items I have infused I did so only at the cost of glimmer. I'm currently sitting on about 200 cores. I'm not doing this again. Farming within farming within farming is bullcrap. You cap the number of ghost fragments at 20 which isn't enough to buy all of Spider's bounties at once. Which means players must leave, do a handful of patrols or public events then return to Spider to buy the last two bounties. Then at some point they will have to farm ghost fragments all over again. That is by deliberate design. It is done so for no other purpose than to inflate and extend play time. It has nothing to do with "meaningful choices" in regards to our favorite gear. You are purposely bottle-necking progression. I am not chasing yet another light level increase. I'm done farming cores. Adding them to bansee-44 won't fix the inherent problem which is you have intentionally designed an economy with several layers of farming. I love Destiny but this is ridiculous. Ya'll can do better than this.