The Lanakov address to the community

[Nepotu]

SNAC back when?

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[Thunderer]

When you're banned! Oh, the irony!

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[aerelm]

Now that you guys are basically remaking the dev team, do yourselves, the mod and the community a favor and make sure it doesn't turn into another generation of compartmentalized circlejerk bullshirt. Drop the whole "internal teams" and "lead devs" structure, the only thing that serves is a handful of people's egos, it doesn't do any good for the actual development of the mod or health of the community. Just have one "dev team", with maybe just a couple of more senior devs at the top, and that only to have someone who'd step in to make the final call in case rest of the team is indecisive/in disagreement. 10 brains work better than 1, so just have every dev involved in every discussion, instead of shoving each "team" (read: 1 person who's doing actual work and 2 other people who just pretend to still be around) into their own little isolated corner.

Also, be realistic with the direction and scope of your development goals. Base your decisions around the current state and population of the mod. This isn't 2010 when ModDB was one of the most active gaming hubs, server was always so full people had to queue for 10 minutes to get in, and there was a constant and consistent influx of new players. Let's face the facts - While "exploration" might sound exciting on paper, anyone who's around and actively playing the game has likely already spent thousands of hours F2ing through empty space, so a thousand more hours of that wouldn't be this "exciting new experience" for them, and as for attracting new players, the limit of what you can possibly do with this 20 year old engine is so underwhelming that you can't possibly attract a substantial audience no matter how much effort you put into adding pretty and exciting little nuggets to different corners of the map. Even if you manage to pull a miracle and somehow add "exploration elements" enticing enough to actually make people log in to check them out, it'll do little in terms of player retention, because people will just go check it out once and that's about it, no more reason to log again.

What the server needs at this point is more deliberately handcrafted hotspots and bottlenecks to make spontaneous player interaction more readily available (because that way, people will know for sure "if I go to system A or camp lane B, I'll always find someone to interact with and won't be wasting my time"). While having 500+ viable trade routes and 50+ systems with at least half a dozen ways of entering and exiting each might sound like a positive, one look at the average playercount makes it painfully clear that the only thing it does is harms the server, as it makes it much harder to find actual interactions ingame. So the starchart doesn't need to be expanded, and player activity doesn't need to be spread out. The actual need of the server in it's current state is the exact opposite: Starchart needs to be shrunk down, with a considerable number of systems and trade routes removed/merged, travel times reduced and actual player activity deliberately funneled into a handful of specific spots around the map (which can then rotate around periodically to keep things fresh).

The current starchart was specifically designed for a 200+ player server, so nowadays with the existing population, If I have a ship parked in system A and I check the playerlist and see a bunch of people in system B, chances are I'm not even gonna bother logging in, because I know the most likely outcome is going to be me F2ing through empty space for 20 minutes, and by the time I actually get there those players will likely be already long gone. Imho that's the main factor that needs to be fixed, and it's the main factor that's been in dire need of a fix for years now but none of the recent dev team have even bothered looking in that general direction because they were all too distracted with that grand vision of a glorious mod with sprawling playerbase, which let's be real, won't be happening no matter how hard you imagine it.

tl;dr - Develop the mod according to what it is, not what we all wish it would've been.

Good luck.

[Reno]

Tau-Omicron back to Tau-37 pls.
And no more Omega-Omicron-Sigma-applesauce

This

It was Omicron 80 before it became Omicron Tau

Or this

And many others to change back how is was.

Anyway , goodluck Lanakov

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[Nightowl]

I don't like it, but i have to agree @aerelm in some parts.
Especially the map.
Yes, it'a defently cool to have 100+ systems, but it makes no sense, that 30 of them are seen by less than one player per day.

And even when we as over 100 people on the sever at the last weekende, so most of us should know, that this won't happen every weekend.

I would say, we look to every system and think about it with two premises: Is this system really active used and we should remove at least one system per Faction. Yes, i say we should remove about 20-30 Systems.

When reseaching should be really new, so we could add some systems, like the Uncharted ones. my suggestion: at first remove 20+ Systems, than add 2-3 Uncharted systems. And make new systems. When we (the player) go there and claim our space (maybe with PoB's), let them stay. If not, remove them after some month and create a new one.
If you need help, just ping me.

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This is a game, a Roleplay-Game!

[Sabru]

Simply on the fact that, apart from seeing the name mentioned a few times in the past, i have no idea who Lanakov is... i actually hold some hope that Disco could actually start moving again and get things happening and not fall into the factionalized, shadowy and sometimes corrupt states that previous staff teams suffered from.

The regionalized focus sounds nice because that means that potentially Kusari could actually get some proper development for the first time in a long time (and i dont count the Ku civil war which had so much potential but was wasted).

Transparency does sound nice because the staff have always seemed to act like a shadowy cabal planning how things will go without telling anybody anything while the community (those not in the know or have connections) go about their RP and end up being shit on because of staff decisions made in secret.

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[The_Godslayer]

SNAC back when?

+1

[Alestone]

i actually hold some hope that Disco could actually start moving again and get things happening and not fall into the factionalized, shadowy and sometimes corrupt states that...

Nothing shorter than the memory of a politician for inconvenient facts...

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The Power To Get You There!

[Altejago]

This is awesome, thank you Lanakov!

Let me know if I can help in any capacity.

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[t0l]

damn they really fucking torpedoed disco and left lmao

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