(10-13-2025, 01:43 PM)Barrier Wrote: Regarding the bots: is it really that big of a problem? I know they exist, but surely a trader can't just keep avoiding a pirate every time, they'd waste time and lose money. Presumably even traders have real lives that they have to go back to, so logging off essentially cuts into your CSU. Another volume issue I suppose. At least there's an easy fix there with removing names, but what would be the consequences?

(10-13-2025, 03:23 PM)Eternal.Journey Wrote: The issue isn't the amount, its the fact the guy got pirated at all. It doesn't matter if you ask him for 10k or his discarded toenail clippings from underneath the co-pilot's seat, you still get put on a "log off before meeting" list that involves "Departing Player: Powahtraydah". It's almost ALWAYS the same. The less interaction they get, the better in their mind. And they make it so it's that miserable that no one wants to interact with them; A win-win from their perspective.

Address the Cause, not the Symptoms.

(10-13-2025, 10:21 PM)Lord Caedus Wrote: Fixing this issue wouldn't even be as difficult as everyone makes it out to be, because the Discord bots used by these people to track pirates are doing so off of the list shown on the forums, not the list shown in game. Seems to me that the incredibly simple fix is to just disable the list shown here entirely and see how that changes things. We can still have it show how many people are online, but there's honestly no need for it to show who or where.

(10-13-2025, 11:16 PM)Sayne Wrote: I had a big long post made about this but scrapped it because most have already said what's on my mind. What it boils down to is this:

Player retention is at an all time low because roleplay, in most cases, is an afterthought by many in the community. Most avid RPers do so within their own cliques, rarely involving outside individuals unless agreed upon outside of roleplay.

What's worse, is you have names like "Donald.Jimmyson" and "Freelancer2004" flying around with nothing being done about it despite it being against the rules to have a character name as such. You might say, "Well report it then." Sure, or the admins could pull these players aside when they see it and inform them it needs to change instead. These names only add to the appearance that this isn't a Roleplay community to those first starting to play, so they assume they can do so as well and the problem just propagates.

The piracy problem won't be solved by changing the player list, adding more rules, or anything like that. It comes down to this being yet another symptom of a lack of focus on roleplay and instead in maximizing credit income. With Discovery, you either have Space Truck Simulator or Ace Combat Space Edition and nothing much inbetween.

(10-14-2025, 11:36 AM)Mr.Harris Wrote:

(10-13-2025, 11:16 PM)Sayne Wrote: I had a big long post made about this but scrapped it because most have already said what's on my mind. What it boils down to is this:

Player retention is at an all time low because roleplay, in most cases, is an afterthought by many in the community. Most avid RPers do so within their own cliques, rarely involving outside individuals unless agreed upon outside of roleplay.

What's worse, is you have names like "Donald.Jimmyson" and "Freelancer2004" flying around with nothing being done about it despite it being against the rules to have a character name as such. You might say, "Well report it then." Sure, or the admins could pull these players aside when they see it and inform them it needs to change instead. These names only add to the appearance that this isn't a Roleplay community to those first starting to play, so they assume they can do so as well and the problem just propagates.

The piracy problem won't be solved by changing the player list, adding more rules, or anything like that. It comes down to this being yet another symptom of a lack of focus on roleplay and instead in maximizing credit income. With Discovery, you either have Space Truck Simulator or Ace Combat Space Edition and nothing much inbetween.

i agree and disagree with you mate:
Changing the playerlist WILL help, cuz it makes the game more immersive(realistic) and gives a thrill( i am playing on another fl server and it works there, trading feels completly different there)
That devs could also pull these players aside and telling them what wrong instead of reporting everything( we are not playing repotlancer, do we?)

Devs need to do:
Changing the Playerlist to Regions instead of showing systems.
Get rid of players who are harrassing other players(i know a lot of people who stopped playing cuz this players are still allowed on disco
Focus more on the actual content(balancing etc) instead of bringing out new stuff every patch or revive old content/systems)
Sit down and think about why discovery no longer has 200 players per day.....

(10-14-2025, 01:07 PM)Vlad Wrote: Traders won't get killed if they pay what a pirate demands. That's until alien/wild log and kill the trader without demanding anything. That gives the trader no chance to survive. Can you change that, please?

(10-14-2025, 01:07 PM)Vlad Wrote: Traders won't get killed if they pay what a pirate demands. That's until alien/wild log and kill the trader without demanding anything. That gives the trader no chance to survive. Can you change that, please?