Official Faction Activity Fourth Quarter 2023

[Wildkins]

Factions Losing Officialdom
These factions were previously warned for failing the check in the last two quarters, and failed this activity check.

Lane Hackers (LH~)	2d 19:37:21
Void Fae (-[Fae)	12:43:50
Bristol Constructions (B|-)	05:15:58

Factions Warned
These factions have failed the activity check for the first time this quarter.
If they fail another activity check in the next two quarters, they will lose officialdom.

Slomon K'Hara Nomads (K'Hara|)	2d 17:35:58	Must pass next two checks
Universal Shipping Incorporated (US|)	2d 00:54:40	Must pass next two checks
Xeno Alliance (XA-)	1d 23:17:44	Must pass next two checks
Front de Liberation de Gallia ([FLG])	1d 20:12:08	Must pass next two checks

Factions Under Probation
These factions previously failed the activity check in one of the previous two quarters.
They passed this check and, if noted, must pass one more quarterly check to return to good standing.

Bretonian Armed Forces (BAF|)	3d 17:02:43	Warning removed
Nomad Vagrants (Vagrant)	4d 08:40:01	Warning removed
Kusari Naval Forces ([KNF])	4d 06:54:28	Must pass 1 more check
Crayter Republic (=CR=)	3d 14:18:35	Must pass 1 more check

Unofficial Factions Removed From Tracker
These unofficial factions did not meet the minimum activity requirement of one day in three months to remain on the tracker.

Temporary Autonomous Zoners ([TAZ])	21:20:55
Cryer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (+Cryer+)	12:07:08
Universal Shipping (\Universal/)	00:42:02

[SnakThree]

It's a shame that with dwindling server activity overall, staff is unable to adapt and lower activity requirements even a little bit. Then all these compassionate threads (https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...tid=192961) are just useless to begin with if staff can't go through and communicate back to community about community's needs.

It is a shame I could not be a good leader for LH~ during 2023 year. The Lane Hackers will always remain in my memory as the most genuine faction that prioritized character roleplay.

Legendary faction.

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[Ashyur]

1 day per month is low enough, with a minimum of 4 players a faction should have, it means 6h a month, although a faction should have more members so in reality is 2h or 1h a month, how low do you want it? 1 minute ?

[Lemon]

Speaking for [FLG] it's just ... not good. Baffling oversights like removing propaganda without the ultra-easy re-add with all the hotfixes and no quasi and unlawful sell points when getting Ore from miners still not being re-added is making things difficult for a faction that can only demand cargo. We have caps, but cap gameplay was butchered too. This combined with devs not caring and not understanding our faction just zaps the will. The time requirements would be fine if we had devs who care.

[Lemon]

1 day per month is low enough, with a minimum of 4 players a faction should have, it means 6h a month, although a faction should have more members so in reality is 2h or 1h a month, how low do you want it? 1 minute ?

Yeah the requirements themselves seem fine to me even though we failed. The interest in parts of the game and faith in staff are low is all, the excitement from the patch has waned off quickly. Numbers of normal play are down to pre-patch, the only thing that is very good and keeps up numbers is the events - but if you don't have them for your faction - tough. It's not the 3 days, it's the other things that are the issue.

Lane Hackers got a nice /net boost but econ hit Liberty hard, a lot fewer people go there after Manhattan stopped being the n1 regular commodity smuggling drop-off, the OF used to trade a lot of Cardamine that's now useless. JDs got unfriendly to use with the range, one way jumps so OCs stopped coming, cap access/zoi to omicrons got removed along with Insurgency, pve is just terrible now so there's much less activity overall, nobody to start and snowball it. It's sort of the same - the house doesn't feel exciting or alive anymore, and it's not too surprising 6/10 fails are factions from Liberty.

[Ashyur]

It's not the 3 days, it's the other things that are the issue.

Lane Hackers got a nice /net boost but econ hit Liberty hard, a lot fewer people go there after Manhattan stopped being the n1 regular commodity smuggling drop-off, the OF used to trade a lot of Cardamine that's now useless. JDs got unfriendly to use with the range, one way jumps so OCs stopped coming, cap access/zoi to omicrons got removed along with Insurgency, pve is just terrible now so there's much less activity overall, nobody to start and snowball it. It's sort of the same - the house doesn't feel exciting or alive anymore, and it's not too surprising 6/10 fails are factions from Liberty.

you're right, I'm surprised these things are not brought up on forums more often
I would like to see pirate factions gets extended/unlimited ZOI if economy is not fixed(by that I mean accommodate it for 10-30 players instead of +150 players )

[Couden]

I'm surprised these things are not brought up on forums more often
I would like to see pirate factions gets extended/unlimited ZOI if economy is not fixed(by that I mean accommodate it for 10-30 players instead of +150 players )

Play pirate ID or have various unlawfuls

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[SnakThree]

1 day per month is low enough, with a minimum of 4 players a faction should have, it means 6h a month, although a faction should have more members so in reality is 2h or 1h a month, how low do you want it? 1 minute ?

Grinding activity is not beneficial to anyone. People should be active due to having fun playing the game. Recent updates ruined some of trade routes that I used to have fun doing as LH for example.

But I have no intention of keeping faction official when activity isn't self sufficient for it.

It is up to staff to decide what they want for community in the long term.

Take care.

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[Egon Bigmemes]

when economy absolutely shitter shatters the majority of trade and then we shoehorn economy onto pobs but it turns out it kind of sucks too and then people stop trading in houses and then pirates and lawfuls stop logging in houses

el discovorio freelancer is all that we'll have here soon since all that will be left are outcasts, corsairs, and freelancers/freelancer adjacents

thanks for all your incredible work doing nothing to make anyone want to play the game!
also thanks for turning a blind eye to a certain group the last couple years that has definitely not driven off the rest of the active playerbase! gotta make sure to not step on any toes!

[TheSauron]

also thanks for turning a blind eye to a certain group the last couple years that has definitely not driven off the rest of the active playerbase! gotta make sure to not step on any toes!

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