Intelligence ID rework

[nevrozac]

What's the rationale behind the mining bonuses?

Roleplay wise - none. No roleplay or events have turned towards these factions gaining mining capabilities of Azurite.
Mind you - roleplay like this was required for factions like Core and the others that have bonuses currently in order to obtain this capability, as otherwise not even them would be mining it efficiently:
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...tid=165991
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...tid=161409
It's a blatant disregard to the effort that people had to put in and it robs the originality that core/order/aux had in exploiting this commodity. All of a sudden multiple factions received an x3 bonus as if they would even remotely have means of entertaining mining operations all the way in Delta.

Gameplay wise - they want to create more activity and artificial interaction (that imo most people wont enjoy). It will start disputes and agreements that are needed in gameplay but will pour in forcibly into roleplay to motivate them. In short: OORP deals > INRP events


edit: or certain people in charge of such changes are using the excuse of buffing intelligence IDs to give the faction they like certain bonuses (adapteds, zoi, id lines, mining etc). maybe its a conspiracy but who knows?

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