(03-01-2015, 01:08 PM)SpaceTime Wrote: So let me get this right. The home system of a non-vanilla (unlawful-revolutionary) faction gets mining fields and becomes the shortcut of at least 1/3 of the game's trade routes.
...Why?
Lore in Discovery is not bound to Vanilla Freelancer, neither should it be, opening up the guard system of a faction like the Hellfire Legion serves to make them better included in the mod, and I see nothing wrong with that.
So many factions in Discovery exist that did not exist in "Vanilla Freelancer", so many factions exist in Discovery that exist in a WAAAAAAAAAY different way now, then they did in "Vanilla Freelancer".
Discovery Freelancer is NOT 'Vanilla Freelancer", and it sure as heck bears little resemblance to it these days, and I'm hard pressed to believe that that's a bad thing. Discovery took Freelancer, and EXPANDED upon it, and it continues to expand and change in ways that I bet Digital Anvil never even thought Freelancer could.
I also have to wonder what you think is wrong with a faction opening itself up in a manner that makes it more inclusive and accessible?
But, can we talk about the map more, instead of focusing on something because of a specific faction?