Firstly, I'd just like to say that I'm not complaining about my Opifex characters, I like them just fine. And secondly, I'm putting this here because "Game Mechanics" seems about the best place for it.
Ok, disclaimers aside, I'm wondering exactly what the Opifex is supposed to have as a breed advantage.
Is it their hitpoints? No way. They've always seemed a bit more fragile than Solitus, so there's no problem here. Atrox obviously have more hp, even moreso after 14.6. Opifex get more hp than Nano, no surprise there. But HP definitely isn't it.
Is it a slight nano advantage? Small surprise, no. Opifex get less nano than Solitus, for some reason. Not a huge amount less, couple of hundred points differene by L200, but it's there.
What about abilities then? Ok, Opifex get two green abilities, just like Atrox and Nanomage. They get one dark blue as opposed to two, which is kind of nice, except for the fact that it's Stamina, but I can deal with that. They're the second cheapest breed to max out (and if Atrox didn't have those low Int/Sen/Psy caps, they'd be the cheapest). If you max them out, they also get more total ability points than any other breed.
I guess I've answered my own question, if you max out the breed's abilities, Opifexes tend to be pretty cheap for a lot of ability points. Slightly lower Str and Int than a Solitus, and a reasonable hit to Psychic, so the whole IP/Ability thing doesn't seem like much.
Ah well, like I said, I'm not complaining, just curious if that's it