Advertising Disco

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Seeing that activity is very low currently, and fearing that this mod will die sooner or later, why not try to revive it a bit with some advertising on the most important social media and sharing platforms?

Facebook, twitter, imgur and all the other fancy sites people love to hang out these days would be perfect to trigger a bit of nostalgia among the freelancer vets, interest new players who never heard of it and look for something less complicated and expensive than Elite, Star Citizen or the other hardware heavy space sims.

Maybe even make a server wide ooRP event coupled with a voucher code given on the ad, to help newcomers who present this code to get started with a few mil credits.

Or add a starter system where they can get to know the world of Discovery FL without too heavy consequences for ooRP behavior, just to spark the interest to dive into it more and maybe stay safe from people who would very likely blow them up just for lulz.

I came back after 2 years, and seeing that the activity has dropped even more, without some efforts to draw attention is a bit saddening...

Let's be honest, the only advertisement so far is on ModDB, at least what I found so far, and that is a very niche platform imo. Older players who would love to dive back into an expanded Freelancer usually don't spend time surfing the web for a nostalgia inducing space sim, it's more triggered by suddenly "stumbling" upon something like an advertisement or a mention on websites, social media platforms, sharing sites, stuff like that.

So, is there anything we could do to try and bring Disco a bit more to the "frontpages"? Maybe even including donations from long time players to finance a more "pro" process?

I really think this mod and the community involved should keep existing.