What is keeping you from playing?

[Stewgar]

Bloody knew it

It's an unfortunate thing that we've been forced to do to maintain our members. I have seen so many people leave only because of bad experiences. Come to think of it, I don't know of anybody who has left Discovery because of the mod itself. Of the people who left because of pirates, some of the reasons include the "give money or die" lines only, pirating in places that don't make sense (right outside of a major shipyard and Battleship in New York makes 0 sense), and Discord logging. There's one system in particular that is known to Discord logging. I have seen people literally change games once I enter the system on a specific tag just to make a kill or pirate and then switch back to whichever game they were playing once the interaction is done.

So yes. Unfortunately, meta must be fought with meta. Not saying that pirates have to be uber creative, but a little bit of flavor goes a long way anymore.

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I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments. But rather, by the strength we show when, and if, we're ever given a second chance.