What do you feel is disincentivising you to play discovery freelancer?

[Miaou]

There is no real way I or anyone can comment on most of these options in depth without someone screeching trial by forum or flaming/harassing.

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[Reacher]

Really the biggest thing that dismays me from playing more often is the severe limitations in ZOI. With such low player counts its becoming too difficult to find people to interact with and even worse when you are looking to avoid perceived toxic situations.

I put in a player request for an extend ZOI for one of my factions, but nothing from the "powers that be". It wasn't massive. It was just the systems directly bordering our current ZOI. Not to mention a sister/enemy faction has a much much larger ZOI.

You want people to play more often then start by loosening up the rules you have in place for the sake of "RP" To be honest every faction should have the same "Freedom" as intelligence factions in regards to engagement/piracy. Snubs/Transports/Gunboats.

[Sombs]

That's a limit your burden yourself with by your own choice, though. Nothing prevents you from using ships with a different ID. In fact, you might even enjoy a different setting.

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[Reacher]

That's a limit your burden yourself with by your own choice, though. Nothing prevents you from using ships with a different ID. In fact, you might even enjoy a different setting.

Perhaps people enjoy playing with their friends or with a particular factions ships or RP. I for one like keeping to a core set of ships and have no interest in having a ton of ships.

[Sombs]

That is still a restriction based on a preference you set yourself. It has nothing to do with friends, as you can convince them to do the same if it is for the fun of it. If you just enjoy particular faction ships, then you just need to live with the restrictions or go the SRP route for either these ships on another faction ID or an extended ZoI. Looking at how low the requirements for successful SRPs are right now, you wouldn't even need to do much.

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[Reacher]

That is still a restriction based on a preference you set yourself. It has nothing to do with friends, as you can convince them to do the same if it is for the fun of it. If you just enjoy particular faction ships, then you just need to live with the restrictions or go the SRP route for either these ships on another faction ID or an extended ZoI. Looking at how low the requirements for successful SRPs are right now, you wouldn't even need to do much.

I like how I play, for what little interest I still have, thanks anyways bub.

Your pretentiousness aside: I want the game to be less of a hassle for players not more. Not everyone enjoys forumlancer.

Open up ZOIs or don’t. All you have to loose is players. Can’t even barely break 60 players anymore at peak times. Even with an event running.

[JonasHudson]

I think if the topic is problems this is a good vote to have. People want to do ones about favourite pros, thats fine too.

I can't count the amout of times the lack of closed RP has ruined my activity and interactions, and made me wonder why bother. I'd like to see a return to team based factions. At the very least for military/police/intelligence and factions that are hostile/at war with each other. Some seem to insist on breaking down the lines, to not take it seriously.

But I admit low player count is the root of that problem. We have bounced up from the lowest point of the last 5 years though. To bring in people, or entice them to log here again when they have other choices, we need to add more sandbox features. that means new places to colonize and explore, and new activities to keep people generating stuff in REAL TIME since thats what people go for in other mmo/rpg games. If they can get it here, they may do so.

more free flowing battles, let bases be used for war and actually be recognized to be used for even military purposes, like expanding territory, claiming areas and routes etc. People complained abbout blocking jumpholes with bases like it was a problem. Cloaks? you only have to die once to learn to get one or go around, and it causes people to take actions. if miners want to secure an mining zone, i say sure. we could balance by making sure most minable zones are in zoi of at least 2 factions capable of mounting warships, and let navies deal. combine all that with new systems to settle (yes they should be empty of factions!) so they can be filled fresh.

Last point is on planets. we have all these planets and moons but no one NEEDS them, no one has to care or get use out of them, or fight for them. There are so many possibilities on how to make them valuable. We could make it so that states/factions could draw 'ore points' or something, X points per planetary body per month by possessing a planet in your space, so the more you have the more you get, and they add up to be used for generating NPC assets, to be used in guarding said planets from challengers or trying to claim more.

If we went super sandbox and advertise it we'd increase population again. Players usually want more options, not less.

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[Sombs]

That is still a restriction based on a preference you set yourself. It has nothing to do with friends, as you can convince them to do the same if it is for the fun of it. If you just enjoy particular faction ships, then you just need to live with the restrictions or go the SRP route for either these ships on another faction ID or an extended ZoI. Looking at how low the requirements for successful SRPs are right now, you wouldn't even need to do much.

I like how I play, for what little interest I still have, thanks anyways bub.

Your pretentiousness aside: I want the game to be less of a hassle for players not more. Not everyone enjoys forumlancer.

Open up ZOIs or don’t. All you have to loose is players. Can’t even barely break 60 players anymore at peak times. Even with an event running.

The issue with your self-imposed problem is that with more effort and less laziness/stubbornness/willingness to be open to something else, you wouldn't have that issue. Right now, you limit yourself to a very niche of the game by your own choice, and there is no need for intervention from outside as it is literally just you yourself who imposes these restrictions on you. You demand change without effort in a place that needs efforts on yourself instead of change of the environment to be tailored to you at the cost of quality for other people.

As I once told you already: If you think it is a good idea to improve your experiences by worsening the experiences of others, your idea is worthless. This is a game of compromises and cooperation when it comes to the creation of an enjoyable roleplay environment. The things you want can be achieved with efforts, but you rather demand the change to be delivered on a silver plate. That's not the issue of Discovery but your own. And only you can fix it for yourself.

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[Thexare]

The issue with your self-imposed problem is that with more effort and less laziness/stubbornness/willingness to be open to something else, you wouldn't have that issue.

translation: "work more for your entertainment"

more likely outcome: player goes somewhere else if they can't do something they find interesting here.

[Sombs]

Not sure whether Discovery should comfort people who don't want to put effort into anything. If people don't have the patience or willingness to set up a new ship which takes ten minutes at max and costs almost nothing at this point, but have the time to complain on the forum and make requests and demands to tailor the game into their preferences at the cost of cutting into the preferences of others, maybe they aren't much of a loss at all to Discovery. This game is easily enjoyable for lazy people, but if you want something, you need to put effort into it. That's how life works and that's how other games work as well.

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