Hello

[Hanz]

Hello people,

Prepare for quite the story haha.

I've been around since 2008, freelancer being my first multiplayer game experience, and although I played on multiple servers ranging different mods, I enjoyed Discovery the most due to the sheer number of systems to explore and the comprehensive lore.

I stopped playing and rejoined multiple times over the last decade, each time starting from scratch trying to rebuild my fleet of ships . Always the most challenging part for me in doing this was to reestablish trade routes/ mining spots when so many things change constantly, from ships to goods to mining spots etc. ( yes it's quite hard I think when you try to limit outside the game information as much as you can - but also entertaining).

Believe it or not, I always was a loner in this game, even from the start I had a faint idea of the community having some kind of forum but I was never interested, just want to have fun in game and keep it that way. You can imagine, at first this had some dire consequences on my gameplay experience (from people asking me stuff I had no idea about to finding my battleships in Bastille - does that thing even exist anymore haha). I was in my early teens and wasn't having none of damn regulations and rules, oups.

Some time forward and some lessons learned, I was being way less disruptive, started respecting at least what the ID was telling me to and have the bare minimum roleplay involved, although I'm still bad at it compared to you guys.

Moving to present times, I decided to get on again and do it the proper way: have a look on this place. After having read the Laws of Sirius in its entirety I sure do feel way more prepared to engage in interaction. Certainly browsing a forum is not something I would have thought of me doing in this day and age haha.

Moving aside from my experience to myself personally:
I'm a die hard Rheinlander and a Bretonian sympathizer. Unioners and RM being my favorite factions - is it possible to have a Bismarck class on a Unioner? their wiki lets me know they could.
I really like and enjoy what you guys - the community/admins idk- have done with the story so far and how you placed it within the game. That being said, I really do enjoy reading the factions' wiki, about events and even the in game news and infos, trying catching up to things, but they seem quite not up to date. This is one of the main reasons i'm writing here, is there anywhere I can find updated information on the timeline/ factions infos?
One thing game related that saddened me to see was the removal of the guard systems along with a lot of other systems. I understand it was probably done to increase player interaction but I really wanted to explore them again, also rip that giant black hole in the outcast guard system( I think).

If you made it this far, hope you had a laugh here and there in my expense, and I would appreciate any tip and/ or answer to some of my questions.
Currently ig consists of:
- Bismarck class RM,
- Ranseur class Outcast,
- Mastodon class IC,
- Hegemon class BMM,
- Sleipnir class RM,
- Cutlass class FL,
- and hopefully another Unioner Bismarck. xD

Thanks,
See you out there.