(11-20-2023, 11:53 PM)Chronicron Wrote: Forced tightening of routes that was supposedly meant to increase player interactions (it didn't) as well as merger of different systems into bigger ones, like Omicron-74 being merged with Kappa, Omicron Chi with Omicron Beta, Omega-49 with Omega-47 and so on and so forth.
No. With the current pop having more systems with better connections isn't good. Tightening the routes was a good call, issue is not in the routes but in players who A, either don't capitalise on it as lawfulls / unlawfulls or B, use player list to metagame. If player list only showed regions and not systems, piracy / smuggler bashing would be much more viable, cause ppl couldn't just decide to dock and wait you out, because they wouldn't know if your police ship is sitting next to Dublin JH or patroling Cambridge.
(11-20-2023, 11:53 PM)Chronicron Wrote: Definitely adding the new ones. As we are, we're at the smallest amount of systems that we had in years. Return alternative routes, but make them worth taking, not just a system that could be used to avoid interaction.
Yes, but only those meant for discovering stuff or very rare things. No main trading hubs or routes.
(11-20-2023, 11:53 PM)Chronicron Wrote: Travel times should remain the same, but diversified with additional systems and alternative routes.
Travel time, yes, alternative routes no, or only for snubcraft. Again, transports have more then enough options as is, they don't need even more.
(11-20-2023, 11:53 PM)Chronicron Wrote: As of 5.0, the connections are too few, even for the activity hub systems. No, the concept of having a designated place where everyone can go and chat is not bad, hubs like Freeport-11, Ames, Trenton, Gran Canaria draw a lot of attention from people who enjoy the roleplaying part of this mod.
No. Connections are fine as is for transports and bigger. More snub only connections might be fine.
(11-20-2023, 11:53 PM)Chronicron Wrote: ... Tau-44 didn't need that sort of connection. Feeling like the system is a dead end...
Tau-44 has two connections. Is not a dead end. NavMap is wrong.
(11-20-2023, 11:53 PM)Chronicron Wrote: A healthy mixture of both, more systems with diverse connections which would form different routes from point A to point B
Again, no, disco doesn't need more systems with a lot of connections, it needs more remote systems with interesting stuff