1) Corsairs being closer to the Outcasts;
2) Kusari being at war with a house, with Rheinland for example;
3) Bretonia to be inRP able to perform raids including capital ships;
4) The Bretonian carrier (the construction of which I am going to supply during the following 7 days);
5) Every house and large organization to have ships of all classes - LFs, HFs, VHFs, light bombers, heave bombers, ..., battlecruisers, light battleships, heavy battleships (they should be different from each other, of course);
6) Less POBs (what will probably happen soon, since there is a new rule about permissions of their construction);
7) Less factions;
8) Randomizing restart locations;
9) Buffing carriers' cargo space;
10) Separating nanobot and shield battery classes;
11) People to have a relaxed stance towards ganking;
12) People being more relaxed;
13) Less trolls.
Which made all the Rheinland unlawfuls the Hessians' little brothers. Thus the Hessians were the most played as all the unlawfuls offered the same gameplay - overthrow corrupt Kanzler, great revolution is near - but the Hessians had the most toys so why bother making a "little Hessian"?
Not trying to pick on the Hessians, I'm just saying what happened as someone who used to play a Unioner. It's why the old AGS-U| pushed really hard for the Unioners to be more unique by being Corsair friendly.
You know before the tech char there was another reason to play a faction - it's tech. You want sexy flurries? Make a hacker. You want sammaels? LR ID is for you, comrade. Now most close buddy factions just share 90% core and why bother to join the faction if you can use the toys with the superior ID and a slight nerf?
This would take allot to do in game but instead of just chat windows have 4 main bars where you can interact with other players ( Avatars) for trading, financial transactions, a bank where I have a personnel account that can't be lost, a weapons bank would be nice a storage area where I could put my gear/ equipment I get or when I sell or replace a ship I may not need this equipment right now, if I get smoked I loose what was in my hold, even have factions ( a recruitment window) of all sorts where you could sign-up or ask questions, trading of ship weapons this is all in game. A community inside the game get it more interactive.
This would be excellent for new players they have many questions and they are lost on what to do in game many times I scan them and their cargo hold and it has the discovery manual, and other pages that they can sell off.
Myself - usually Fridays and Saturdays in the evening I'll fly around and find newbies in Penn and NY system and assist them on trade missions. I take them on a long run to Kussari, a Freeport or Tau-23 but also protection from bad guys
The other would be voice interaction head set with a mic, click on the player and you can chat directly verbally to them, so we're not trying to fly and type and fend off aggressors all at once.
More people having fun in business than in just killing anyone. Also there should be more things to be able to spend money. Different PoB styles? A player owed planet?
Quote:Now most close buddy factions just share 90% core and why bother to join the faction if you can use the toys with the superior ID and a slight nerf?
*Looks at hessian cells* red to LWB, red to Bundschuh. I blame blodo for it.
And you know, while I wasn't playing at time RRA was active, I'm still thinking about Bundies and LWB as about little hessian's brothers. And as betrayers about Unioners. Yet, VWA and LWB are offering completely different kind of playstyle compared to [RHA]
The key to an active server is a small amount (one to three, going off of Discovery's numbers) of the strongest trade routes. Seriously. You make a "best" route and everybody will trade it. People will pirate the traders on that route and then the lawfuls come to combat the pirates. I have personally experienced the fact that top trade routes are the catalyst for activity on any server.
Any server.
Couple that with balance for all three groups and you have a serious winner. With the hooking capabilities of Discovery, the trade routes can be alternated every x amount of time, like your special commodity or mining events, keeping the game fresh. Please do this.