Change several resource cap/gates back to Live, SOE, rates at the time of the NGE

After extensive review over the past year and a half, this proposal has been addressed, but not implemented as proposed.

This was the most debated crafting and economy change -and likely the most debated change- in Restoration history.

As part of that process, we:
- reviewed the historical code change that altered these generic resource caps prior to SWGR
- analyzed every resource that has ever spawned on the server
- mapped affected schematics to determine where the impacted stats appeared, whether those lines were primary or secondary, and whether those schematics could already cap
- built a new internal application to test the effects of cap changes across every schematic in the game
-dusted off old statistics books to do more accurate probability calculations
- ran surveys and force-ranked feedback with staff, senators, and former crafting senators
- held an extended internal review with thousands of messages dedicated to this topic

We thoroughly evaluated multiple options, including:
- doing nothing
- changing schematic resources to be more specific
- reducing schematic experimentation values (4-stat to 3-stat)
- creating new resources altogether
- increasing JTL frequency
- raising JTL minimums
- fully reverting caps

Ultimately, we chose the solution that best matched the spirit of the PlayerVoice while minimizing disruption to the nearly five-year-old economy. Raising the JTL minimum property values to 500 and keeping OQ as 1-1000 increases the probability of spawning a high quality multi-stat resource much closer to that of the original probability without becoming overly frequent. This change also does not shock the economy or existing resource values - while giving players new high quality spawns to get excited about in the future.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this discussion. The feedback here directly helped shape the final outcome. And happy hunting.

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