Black Market Balance

I would like to see further refinement of Soren's grouping of BM items. To encourage BM player interaction, I feel that it is necessary that the black market have a weapon to use against every civ. I also feel the black market should always have tools to combat offworld rushing. This would encourage people to seek alternate paths to victory (hacker/engineering). Finally, I would like to see a counter to early founding resource domination. I would like to see a BM balance similar to this:

 

Tier 1 - Mandatory civ counters (4) 

• Pirates or Magnetic storm - to counter Scientific remote triangles 
• Power Surge or EMP - to counter Robotic clusters
• Mutiny or Dynamite - to counter Scavenger power plays
• New Claim - to counter Expansive sprawl 

Tier 2 - Mandatory offworld rush & resource domination counters (2)

• Slowdown Strike
• Nukes

Tier 3 - Optional random item (1)

• Goon squads
• Cook books
• Mule
• Nework Virus
• Spies

 

I am currently not a fan of the following BM items and would like to see them disappear or be heavily modified:

• Auction
• Holograms