The mod (and the systems) we lost.

["Jade Fire"]

To be honest, the fix of this problem would require the mod to have more staff. Such as Uncharted Kusari at the moment, that is a staff group effort done for only one system. During the time of guard systems, players would log to defend them and keep people out of them.

I do agree with you, the cutting down of things is upsetting, but looking at it from the other side of the coin as well, how often did players go there and explore those areas? Most new players would never find that information or even look into it, and thats something all MMO's and games have honestly, even majorly in World of Warcraft which I play.

Like in World of warcraft you got all these locations, bosses and old raids that were huge and impactful on lore sure, but today those locations are rarely visited unless by leveling players and soon after done there, people leave and forget the lore that was even there to begin with.

While on one hand it would be cool to have unexplored systems, hidden bases or even loot wrecks that the past mod had, the problem with that would be something that other games have also run into. Say for example the devs or admins added a new system now. They'd need to first develop the system, work on if missions can happen there, wreck drops and loot, functioning patrols and locations of NPC's and whatever else that is needed.

Now I'm not saying the devs nor admins can't do it, but the problem is, if they did do this, who would actually take the time out and explore these areas? Surely we vets would but were only a section of the entire mod at the moment as it stands.

It was the same problem when the other systems existed, no one went to them beyond us vet players and even then it was to map locations, get the wrecks out there or just to buy the caps that were sold in those systems, and even after the fact if non-members of say, the Gaians entered Lewis (Their old guard system) they'd log and shoot them, so even in the end they were...not useless, but held no real function then just being home systems of factions.

About making things realistic, there's no problem with that, of course it will never be 100% perfect because of the game engine and thats something we've come to live with, but even then there was unexplainable things in the mod that, when people tried to explain them, were only shot down and told no or that it was not like that.

Honestly I'd love to see unexplored systems return with hidden things in them, but the fact of the matter is that they'd be rather useless to everyone save a select few players in the mod who love exploring, and even then the devs would have to remake, relink, redesign and whatever else they do for systems all over again. Not saying its impossible, but...just go to the nav map, open options and select unaccessable systems and you'd see the amount of ??? systems that used to be old guards and what not, that are now removed (not actually removed, just hidden)

Like, it takes a group effort to RP the opening of one uncharted Kusari system, I could not fathom the required effort that would be needed to open up 10+ new systems with new RP and things inside of them.

Tho anything is possible really if you put your mind to it I guess

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