Well, yes, it IS old space shooter, we cannot deny that obvious fact we'll rather be losing players with time than getting new ones. Discovery has nice RP aureola, but don't make it discovery's idol. This game is about getting/avoiding blue after all, quoting Spazzy "RP is excuse for pews".
Perhaps /conn command was a mistake, every evening you can find players from all factions in Connecticut, corsairs, hessians, police, pirates, outcasts, colonials, etc etc... Players who normally would be looking for fights in inRP systems, and by the way RPing before engagement. More or less but vast majority of them would be, even if it's just few lines.
Another issue is grinding POBs by players, at the moment we have 87 bases according to the list, and only few is right outside BA/FOW source, like Krupp or Itabashi, usually bases are placed at least few jumps away from cheap BA source, and only few factions like IMG supply their bases in a right way, engaging all members in it. Normally it's 2-3 players doing it, as I heard it's pain in ass to supply base in Omicrons, 300k under the plane. Why people build bases in such places, instead of getting legal extremally easy to supply base right outside capital planet, I don't know. Once it's well supplied shielded core 2 you can stop worry won't base get destroyed in a few hours while you sleep or are at work/school, local lawfuls will also defend it.
