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* Makes Black Market Uplinks more easily craftable, adds them to uncommon maint loot pool (#74744) ## About The Pull Request Replaced the subspace amplifier in the Black Market Uplink's crafting recipe with a signaller and a microlaser. Added the Black Market Uplink to the maintenance loot pool. ## Why It's Good For The Game The BMU is an _extremely_ rare device to find in rounds. It can quite literally ONLY be found via the crafting recipe, and with how stupidly bloated the crafting lists are, it isn't something many people know about. All this means that a very unique and engaging gimmick item is tragically extremely obscured. To add to this, the recipe requires a _subspace amplifier_. These items are UNBELIEVABLY rare - they need you to vend them from a techfab with bluespace communication technology researched, which is fair to say is not a common thing. Sometimes maps have them in tech storage, but even then you have to break and enter which can be quite risky at times and an annoying blockade the other times. The black market items are not worth this much hassle. They are all small cute gimmicky objects that do not heavily impact the round. By making it not only easier to craft with common items, but also appear in the maintenance loot pool, this will make assistants find out about it more often, which can further incentivize them to utilize the **cargo bounty system** to get enough money to buy their funny gadgets. Another idea would be to make the uplink appear as a bounty item, which would be a great way to tell players it exists and encourage them to mix both systems together. The system for getting items is also unnecessarily, miserably awful - your item either gets literally thrown into space from a random direction, or it is teleported silently without warning in 60 seconds onto a completely random place which can very much include Security, Command, the Vault, or other high-security areas. Needing to B&E into these areas to get your durathread vest is, uh. Not worth it. However these aren't part of this PR, unless they're given the A-OK. (also maybe make it cargo purchasable?) ## Changelog 🆑 balance: Makes Black Market Uplinks more easily craftable, adds them to uncommon maint loot pool /🆑 * Makes Black Market Uplinks more easily craftable, adds them to uncommon maint loot pool --------- Co-authored-by: carlarctg <53100513+carlarctg@users.noreply.github.com>