I guess I should have made one of those "I'm not new" posts in the welcome section, but considering I wasn't terribly active on the forum to begin with it seemed rather pointless. For the few who did know me I was @Langolier . The only reason I'm even bothering to post here is that @Reeves post struck a nerve. When I first began playing here I started as an indie LSF agent named Cole Hauser. Since I had played a ton of vanilla before hand, I figured an LSF agent would be the easiest role to jump in to.One night, I meet up with an LN player named Reeves (sorry, the first name eludes me at the moment.) After flying around patrolling New York for a bit, I decided we needed an "adventure". Which led to me dragging Reeves off to the Virginia system which led me to the following...
(04-09-2019, 09:29 AM)Reeves Wrote: I'm a huge advocate for more content, especially the kind that gives me something to explore. Exploration, all on its own can get me to keep playing a game.
Literally anything that I can look at for the first time, with fresh eyes and just say "Wow."
I hope, as I always have, that I'll be made anxious by the mere prospect of wandering around to find something I'd never seen or heard of before.
Now, I don't know if he was just RP'ing really well or was honestly "wowed" by what we found, but the result was the same for me either way. IT WAS FUN. I was seeing things I'd never knew of for the first time.That's what I took the name "Discovery" to mean in the title. But then I "Discovered" there were these awesome tools available that would tell you everything you would ever need to know without spending a single minute "exploring" (FL Companion, online NavMap etc.) and my interest started to fade.
Eventually I ended up joining an unofficial (at the time) faction [FL-ER] after @Freeport 7 shanghai'd me one night for an escort. Had some good times with those guys but basically all I did was keep every ones POBs fed and made lots of credits. Wasn't much in the RP department other than the message dumps. Things stagnated for me. I also had a pretty close call in a car wreck on my way to work one night, so I played less and less. Eventually, I had been gone long enough for me to forget my damn password and have to make a new account. But, I digress...
I guess all I want to say after all this rambling is, we need that sense of discovery in "Discovery". I'm not saying get rid of the NavMap and block FL Companion (as Crossfire did) but there needs to be some mystery here. Also, space is dangerous. The current state of non-mission NPC's is nothing but an annoyance. There needs to be a real danger here. These minefields and explosive gas pockets that don't even drop 2 bars of your shield is ridiculous. We need some PVE here to go along with the PVP. I know, getting blown up by an NPC while you're trying to cyber with someone will upset some people, but things are just too stagnate in their current state. Take this as you will, I'm sure the "vocal minority" here already have their torches lit, but it is what it is. Stop focusing so much on forum RP and aspiring Sci-Fi writers and get back to the game. While you still can.