Researcher ID

[Dusty Lens]

The Researcher ID was a mistake. A weird byproduct of the old days which carries little use or purpose beyond allowing someone to have a butchered Freelancer ID which says "Researcher" instead of "Freelancer".

It's dead broken conceptually and carries almost no practical weight.

People seem to like having it around, but I've no idea what to do with it that wont result in an ongoing stream of threads like this beyond making it a near clone of the FL ID, like every other generic ID really.

Furthermore the presence of the Researcher ID seems to create a passing interest in the hearts of the whimsicle that they would like to see similar IDs roaming about. Cartographer, Jelly Fish Farmer, Kusari Citizen and so on. Essentially a vertiable cornicopia of IDs which are somewhat maddening in number.

Or so I have derived from the multitude of PMs and threads I've seen on the subject over the last few months.