The bags do have tiers, but the actual award is a lottery, yes they are weighted to most likely give you the stuff for the expected tier, but hey, you can get lucky.Yeah the honor system isn't a valid one to me. I use the resources a game hands to me.
The loot bags still remove a large portion of the content. If I get cobalt tools as my friend did, they can be used to mine ardite and more cobalt and suddenly after a couple quests, 10 minutes into the game, you can make manyullyn gear. I seem to get ridiculous rewards more often than not as well.That's just too broken for me. Not to mention there's not really any point doing harder quests when you can do 5 easier quests and get better rewards for it. Bags need tiers at least.
It's all about progression, and the bags really screw that up. Looting towns too, but that's an easier fix.
EDIT: I see well I hope someone mods the pack to fix a lot of the progression issues, or a server goes up with some fixes. That'd be great.