PETITION: Retcon the size of Gallia in future versions.

[Mímir]

Liberty is intended to be the hub of Freelancer.
Do you think the original devs put it in the center of Sirius simply because it seemed like a good idea at the time?

The problem with Discovery is the other places really don't give enough of an incentive to leave.

I know I know, as I wrote previously, but one incentive for people to leave could be to provide less of an incentive to stay, no?

I'm not talking about amputating trade from Liberty, but just give people a little less incentive to stay, say move 2-3 of the most heavily used routes somewhere else? It is ridiculous that half the server (ok ok a minor exaggeration) at any given time is located in Liberty - the original devs might have liked that, but it complicates gameplay on a server with only ~200 players. Unless you give in and make your characters Liberty-based, in which case we might as well just go ahead and delete 9/10 of the systems in Disco.

Also isn't Disco supposed to provide an element of progress/change - that things aren't supposed to stay status quo forever, i.e. allowing for for instance a financial crisis, without totally throwing every bit of Liberty lore out the window? Just removing a couple of sell/buy points of goods, and that's that, the crisis claimed its victims, now it's back to business as usual?

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[Skullz]

I have to agree that gallia is just to big for its player base. There are players, but you can run around gallia and not meet one, even when there is enough gallic players online to rival Kusari or Rheinland, or even Liberty at times.

There are so many bases's all over the place, which all look great, but hardly anyone goes near many of them. It begs me to why so many planets in gallia need two or even three bases attached to it, with in the planet itself.

Gallia overall needs to be made smaller, yes. But at the same time still look like it is a sector. How its been done isn't good.

One other thing, is that gallic systems need more conformity in the way of bases. At the moment, it is just, base here, here, that will do, another here. It doesn't look well thought out, in the manner of speaking of how the bases influence the systems they are in. It's capitl system should have more military bases, instead of police bases, as is typical of totalitarianism. And some other bases seem to have no social reason to be there, with in the confines of gallia's social climates.

And if you really wanted to make it fully sectorish, it would need more factions, as there is too much to do for many of the existing ones to do, even before adding the remaining systems still to be added.

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