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Hey Virg, I think your analysis is pretty much on point.

Regarding PvP. The Marauder faction was created to be a "pvpers factions". While this seems logical, it actually killed the PVP on Aniro. Why ? Because, before that, the compositions of the nation-states and of the factions was balanced. There were all sorts of players in every faction. But once the Marauder faction came to life, it attracted most PvP players and... There had nobody to fight anymore, because they all united together :-). It also killed the emulation for PvP. When you play with people who like to that, you tend to try it and maybe even a bit more. When you have nobody who likes that around you, you probably won't be bothered to try. So indeed, for this, the Marauders are kind of a black hole.
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So maybe Marauders are essential. But the question is more like : is it a viable faction ?
Is it cost effective to have people working on them ?