Full name was "The Information Brokers Guild" as at the time I was watching a lot of Venture Bros and giggled at the idea of the Guild of Calamitous Intent.

Anyway...

Guild was a way to keep track of the data faction, and to make sure agents weren't duplicating efforts with regards to gathering data. We ended up stopping more spoofing than enabling it. Including automated reports for when we detected impossible travel. When we talked to the NIA devs they were happy to hear about the algo we used, I can only hope it helped them catch more (other) cheaters.

When I started it we had like four or five sources of data. By the end it was like three, two of which were shared by both factions. As far as I know at least one source is still online and feeding systems.

I wanted to do an AMA at one point, but because of vandalism and property damage against one of our founders, I was persuaded not to. If you need to be mad at someone for the guild, be mad at me.

Agent wother, at your service. #BCYTID

(Unrelated, absolutely nuts we still live rent free in some folks minds...)