04-19-2020, 01:57 PM
Let's be honest, with every passing week, month, year, there are less and less players.
In the past few days, I saw a few new players who introduced themselves, were friendly and polite, and the "elite" of the community offered them little to no help. You can go ahead and tell me that players aren't obliged to help newbies, but then, why remove the group whose sole purpose was doing just that?
Discovery isn't a beginner friendly game, you need a lot of time to settle and get used to all the rules. So why can't we help the people who need it the most? If they are left to learn by themselves, most of them will give up as soon as they find out that disco is more complex than they thought (and nobody told them that before). They are happily wandering through space, when suddenly, couple of players with 5+ years of experience hit them with a bunch of rules that they are violating and threaten to report them. You are scaring them away. Is this really the message you want to send to the ones that have started playing this mod?
If you don't want to help anyone, and just enjoy the game by yourself, that's fine. But look at the bigger picture: Do you find it great to RP with the same 30 people forever? Because the way this community is being treated, that's just what's gonna happen. It's already happening. I'm browsing through the forums, and I know every single name, because they never change, in fact, they have been the same for 5 years!
Not helping the new people that come here is the most selfish act ever. If everyone was like that, this game would have about.... 0 new players coming in. And who will you play with when everyone else decides it's time to move on? When your disco buddies find a job, get a wife/husband, children, with whom are you going to play?
Maybe many of you don't want to, but some of us still do want to help this game stay alive. I think that the return of the message upon connecting "Ask Angels for help" will be the first great step towards keeping this community alive.
In the past few days, I saw a few new players who introduced themselves, were friendly and polite, and the "elite" of the community offered them little to no help. You can go ahead and tell me that players aren't obliged to help newbies, but then, why remove the group whose sole purpose was doing just that?
Discovery isn't a beginner friendly game, you need a lot of time to settle and get used to all the rules. So why can't we help the people who need it the most? If they are left to learn by themselves, most of them will give up as soon as they find out that disco is more complex than they thought (and nobody told them that before). They are happily wandering through space, when suddenly, couple of players with 5+ years of experience hit them with a bunch of rules that they are violating and threaten to report them. You are scaring them away. Is this really the message you want to send to the ones that have started playing this mod?
If you don't want to help anyone, and just enjoy the game by yourself, that's fine. But look at the bigger picture: Do you find it great to RP with the same 30 people forever? Because the way this community is being treated, that's just what's gonna happen. It's already happening. I'm browsing through the forums, and I know every single name, because they never change, in fact, they have been the same for 5 years!
Not helping the new people that come here is the most selfish act ever. If everyone was like that, this game would have about.... 0 new players coming in. And who will you play with when everyone else decides it's time to move on? When your disco buddies find a job, get a wife/husband, children, with whom are you going to play?
Maybe many of you don't want to, but some of us still do want to help this game stay alive. I think that the return of the message upon connecting "Ask Angels for help" will be the first great step towards keeping this community alive.
