Increasing Activity in Discovery

[Enkidu]

a rediculous amount of activity goes on in kusari now.. for the past seven years, its been dead as a door stop, which is why people say its dead without a care.

The activity is self-sustaining. That huge kyushu pew happened because Char hit me on skype and said: "Hey, we've got 4 guys talking in our skype. Want to start a raid?"


I said: "Sure, let me fire up our skypes. We might be able to get four guys." Things snowballed and we both ended up with more players than that.

Then Peregrine turned up and brought the the KNF, we asked the Commune to show up, the Commune asked the Aoi to show up, somebody asked hogosha and farmers alliance indies to show up, the Kusari police showed up, and just like that, because two guys had a skype conversation, over twenty guys are having a massive brawl right in the middle of Kusari space.


That was an unusually large fight, but Kusari sure has been getting hot lately. The trick is to take official factions, throw them against each other at full tilt, RP dynamically and take risks. Note, it takes official factions to get things going, but the benefits are felt by indies and unofficials just as much - it gives them somewhere to go, something to do, and an outlet for their RP as they take stances either for or against the stance of the official groups.


Between ~*~, KNF, BD, 343 and Samura all just dialoguing with each other (special mention to HA, GMG, RG, Order, Core, Crimson Cross, LSF...), we have succeeded in reviving Kusari in a manner which doesn't leach activities from the other houses, without requiring more players. We have given people something to do.

There are usually GC trading cardi. Not because it gives us more money than ore, but because it's more fun to run into people when you're a smuggler and a Bullmastif gives more of a fight than a 5k. It's good for the GC, good for the OC and good for lawfulls. BD, Exiles and others use emergent storytelling to work out their diplomacy and expand their faction lore, which results in interesting, fun encounters and the idea Kusari is forever changing. When people are active, other people log, either to RP with them and chat, trade with them, spy on them for their own personal projects or simply blast them out of the sky, which thus leads to more people logging to figure out what all the fuss is about.


If you want a house to be active, you need official factions in that house who are prepared to take risks. This applies for everywhere in disco. The Omicrons are active because we have risk taking factions there. Kusari is active because we have risk taking factions there. Hell, ~*~ recently started chaos with the Order because it's incredibly fun. We're probably going to get our asses handed to us, but heck! People are going to have happy memories. This is disco at its best and most functional.

The whole of disco can follow this example and it will work. And no, we don't need to wait for content updates to do our own thing and have fun.

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