I would like to speak as a new player here, since i only arrived 1,5 months ago on the server.
I see a few major problems.
The 4.85 has just arrived, it is all over the internet, i mean someone starts looking for a Freelancer mod the first one he/she founds is the disco it has the biggest server, tons of new systems, tons of new ships.
This causes a huge number of new players to make characters here and try it out.
I was lucky that i had RP past, and because some of the experienced disco players have found me and answered my questions, directed me to the forums where i could read the rules etc. I understood them and i do my best to avoid breaking them.
But most of the new players are not this lucky, or worse they don't even care about the rules just want to pewpew...
These players are the cause of many problems, they give a real headache to admins, who wants to read sanction reports hours long every day? Also they annoy those players who play by the rules, shooting down someone without a warning is a big minus in my eyes...
I thought i could do a little about it, so i've spent days trying to teach some players how to play, cos i simply wouldn't like to see them banned, and i am proud that none of those players were sanctioned to this day. But in those days i realized that even if there's 20 more players like myself who tries to help them it's not enough.
There are simply too much newcomers.
So from my view the changes should be in the game mechanics. If these simply wouldn't allow players to for example land on those bases where they shouldn't there would be much less sanction reports and the admins could breathe a little. Setting the Kusari Police and Naval Forces hostile to Junkers IDd ships is a good idea (Samura and Kishiro was bad but it has been fixed). So i'd like to see the same for other factions too, this would really solve a lot of problems. Another problem is that new players choose their ships randomly so maybe just maybe ships should be only sold to those who has atleast friendly reputation with the faction who sells them, much like the weapon sells. To further improve this, ships could be modified so people could not mount an ID on them which is not white or green on the tech tab, also making ships unable to launch into space without an equipped ID would be a big plus.
With these changes the admins could save a lot of time. Ofcourse these changes would require a review of the special requests cos the IDs there may have to be reapplied manually.
Thats all for now cos i'm really sleepy... Will make another post with the rest of my thoughts.
