glimmer prober doesn't have a non antagonistic use

[deltanedas]

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right now artifacts are twice as efficient as the prober (400 points per glimmer instead of 200), so as long as you have artifacts epi should keep prober off. any good mysta has the prober turned off roundstart, some even tactically detonate them early to keep glimmer low

epi making more probers is selfantag since they make more glimmer compared to artifacts or anomalies, so anyone making a prober is automatically valid and wasting precious bluespace
prebase research points were capped by running probers, but it slowed everything down a lot. i think there's a better way to make probers a necessary evil that doesn't bog down research as much, maybe buff their points from 20 to 50/s so theyre more efficient than artifacts

[masterofnursing]

I'd suggest that a department behaving sub optimally does NOT make them valid.
I think that you are largely correct in that glimmer and glimmer probers are NOT balanced well and add little to the game.

[Stop-Signs]

The prober is the only think (other than psionics/oracle) that is different about research from other servers. so in exchange for a massively limiting mechanic that makes epi unable to do anything research related in some occasions, we get a shitty device that spikes glimmer and gives you almost no research. glimmer prober def needs a buff, or glimmer in general needs a rework/major discussion