AI - to the point.

[Lemon]

Honestly, what harm has been done that demands a putting a sledge hammer to it. Let sleeping dog lie. It was working.

Ask yourself. Has anything been harmed with the way it was? No. Was anyone disadvantaged? No. Did anyone care? No.

And why are the powers that be so reluctant to right a wrong?

Just my opinion, but I think there is always something else to the little things that happen here. What seems like a generic change is likely to target something specific. Any events coming up with the AI ID? Possible sieges? Or, anyone flee to an Order/Core base or Ennibeck Freeport? Just takes fleeing from one dev or someone that knows one and *poof* the whole game changes around you. No one cares until they're gonna lose a blue and then its suddenly time to 'fix' it.

I learned the hard way that some 'players' here can make changes to suit themselves, and they will quietly change the whole game to win while acting like the players were in the wrong.

I don't get it, who's "winning" here? Indies will still bring cruisers to houses for one time trips, as indies do.
PvP players will still PvP (but why when you have Nomad ID with way better ships).
It just totally shafts existing active players with no benefit no anybody

I very much doubt this was intentional to screw someone. Just went like "look 0.55 one way not reciprocated" technical change