In short, Bourke-Waite says that the dev team is aware that “the BGS has a number of issues” that it’s currently working to address. Specifically, the devs are currently looking into “the balance between the different activities,” “ways [they] can decrease the number of active conflicts […] and the impact conflicts have on the BGS,” and “how the BGS trends away from factions being stuck in Civil Liberty and Investment states.”
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