another day, another another piss-poorly considered 'suggestion' from detregets. you should go back to putting all your suggestions in that
single topic. i'm not against well-thought out suggestions, but the fact that you rarely get positive responses to your plethora of suggestions should give you a hint that you need to think things through a bit more instead of blitzing crap off the top of your head. not sure if Spock is still paying attention beyond seasonal stuff, but moving all of detregets suggestions into that single topic would drastically cut down on the 'negativity' in the remainder of the suggestions forum.
rank 1 spams flares on me (rank 2292) and gets around 5k research points and a blue.
i hack him back and get 25 research points and no blue.
i'd say that's a win for the low.rank already ... no need to bolster that.
the #1 hacker in the game is rank 566. and he got to #1 at rank 50.
sitting at low.rank can serve a useful game purpose (just before ranking out of an NPC range, manage damage cap for PvP, maximize arti production and hull/shields/crew per rank), but the game doesn't need any more rewards for doing so.
the jam.attenuator is a sop to those who weren't able to stay SSB for PvP. it's a very NICE sop .. nice enough that the most notorious SSB added 1400 decks in a hour to go for it.