Reboot the Angels?

[Karlotta]

There are many more things one could do to make the game more attractive and easier to get into than just having people with at tag that says "look at me I'm an angel". But the latter could be made more viable by allowing [Angel] or [Helper] tagged ships to multibox so they can sit ready to assist and trade irp while waiting for "customers".

I've mentioned those other things many times, tried doing them, but they are made impossible by... well... lets call it social issues... that the community has. Might as well elaborate on those.

1. Official factions should be made more open to new people, by dropping the weird and honestly rather silly "we are the elite and all our members must be excellent" attitude and expectation of official factions. It should be easy to make a lower rank that anyone can join (no forum or discord requirement), that you don't get kicked from when you mess up, so noobs can get to know people more easily, have people who are motivated to teach them for their own self interest for their faction, and so they are motivated to actually integrate into a command structure instead of just being god emperor of their indy dreadnought. Some factions already did this and it does work to create activity, but often only until the "l33t" of the server starts playing holy inquisition of "excellence" in feedback threads or starts forcing faction leaders to kick people, forbid them to fly caps, or demotivate them from logging in other ways.

2. Develop and agree on a pvp "honor code" that doesn't make siding with noobs the choice between no chance in hell to win and being the target of nerdraeg/revengeganks/mobbing by the superl33t because higher numbers or caps were involved. When you look at the oorp conflicts (some of them masked as "irp"), the very often between people who stick with their l33t friends and ideas on one side, and people who are also willing to play with noobs or casuals and who are getting flamed because of the results on the other.

3. Creating activity hotspots, where more player interactions also with noobs will happen, through a combination of system/route layout, trade/mining location revamp, and POBs that are more oriented towards collaboration, openness, and healthy piracy/profit balance than personal profit for one player or faction. An example would be a junker POB in new york, well visible, not too far and not too close from the scrap field, buying/selling gear and scrap openly to everyone. I tried doing that, I tried getting the junker congress to help, I tried getting other POB owners to open theirs, but many liberty factions are in a state where trying to work things out seems rather hopeless because of oorp grudges and "reasons".

4. Make the game simpler. Make mining less complicated by reducing iff/id compatibility requirements. Explain the technerf properly in the green powercore message, and create more 100% cells. Write the pvp-death rules under the "you are dead, better luck next time" message.

5. In addition to the above, update the "welcome" cargo items to mention and not be redundant to the Help System, which contains updated information with more detail, and remove obsolete mentions of the non existing beginner restart.

6. Rewrite the rules in a way suited for first time readers, and dont leave them the cluttered mess they are. Then, add them to the ingame Help System so they are directly accessible ingame.


All these things are simple and have 0 drawbacks. But the community and its leaders are simply unable to overcome their own... social issues... and get them done.

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