We've been through that over and over again. Igiss doesn't want it cause he doesn't like stealing the Nexus system idea from other mods (or something light that...)
I like the /beam idea that Sindroms proposed. Pure awesomeness.
I believe it's been said before... in stead of complaining how Liberty is over populated (or it's equal, the other houses aren't populated enough) then go and do something about it!
Make a character for Kusari or Rheinland, (heck i'd settle for some bretonians in the mix) but don't just sit there and mope about it.
my "brilliant idea" is that we need to balance the houses, then change the starting planet to another house every month or week.
every house would get it's own turn of fail. adding to that, when the new character start point changes at the end of the month, there might still be people floating around that house willing to play the RP of it.
if you dont like the house of the month, you fly somewhere else, same as you always do.
' Wrote:players simply go to the factions that allow them to be who they want to be.
That's why I've never joined a faction and never will join a faction (unless I find it good). I'd preffer to stick to the ol freelancer Id and be able to travel around and do what I please when I please.
' Wrote:my "brilliant idea" is that we need to balance the houses, then change the starting planet to another house every month or week.
every house would get it's own turn of fail. adding to that, when the new character start point changes at the end of the month, there might still be people floating around that house willing to play the RP of it.
if you dont like the house of the month, you fly somewhere else, same as you always do.
I think people would get sick of that, They'd get into the menu where you make a new char, make a new one and find out "ah dammit, I've gotta fly all the way from New Tokyo to Rhineland". It's just more convenient for players to start in the middle. I just had another idea. Why not make an option where you can choose which system you want to start in? that would solve many problems. There wouldn't be any OORP things on your map (someone wanted an option to take those sorts of things away from the map a while back). And then you could start being whatever you want to be alot quicker, for example: an outcast starts out in Alpha and begins his career right away.
' Wrote:the popularity of liberty is not only founded on it being the best known place. it is also cause its simply "easy".
liberty is a modern western house - an enviroment most people are very familiar with or at least have a lot more than just a shrewed idea about concerning roleplay. - rheinland is harder - even veteran players are not always sure about it. - some think its something like ww2 germany, others think its the era between ww1 and ww2 ( republic of weimar )
bretonia is set in some sort of a victorian age of britain and kusari is somewhat the imperial ages of japan.
all in all, liberty is easiest to understand.
forcing people out is the most wrong thing to do though. - there is nothing wrong with people staying in liberty. - as much as there is nothing wrong with people staying in any other place. - saying it is wrong is projecting ones own idea upon others, hence taking away the free choice of others.
the only way to get people into other houses is by making other houses attractive.
it is shown in the rheinland thread. - rheinland is strict. - and it made strict RP rules / laws.
now - a problem with that is. - people often don t like strict. strict is only really appreciated by people who execute the rules ( that are on the stronger side ) or people who for some reason like being bossed around.
most others enjoy freedom more ( casual players ). - sadly the approach is often. - "ok, we are strict, and people don t like it. - now lets do what we can do really really good... and become even stricter - and tell other people that they must like it, cause its roleplay"
what people mix is roleplay and ooc. - convincing roleplay does not necessarily attract players. if there were two sides. - one side the inquisition, the other side the helpless lambs who are accused and punished. - there d be only a handful players who would actually like to roleplay the victims - and a lot more who d enjoy the torturers.
but most people would simply choose to ignore this and roleplay something completely different. - and thats what happens here.
arrogance, dictatorship, rules, limitations and restrictions. - all is nice in RP - but may / can result in a loss of a playerbase. - players simply go to the factions that allow them to be who they want to be.
/signed.
If your house is empty, look to your roleplay. are you chasing peeps out?
I think what might be the major problem with the underpopulation is the fact that n00bs don't want to spend time getting out to where they want to go and then building their rep from there. It's just the fact that the human beast is a lazy one.
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