just in general ...

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Gun effects:

I also think that some gun effects are too large, to the point of blocking your view.
Also some gun effects are a bit too high pitched with and sound a bit too much like "pew pew pew". I think some guns that sound like "pop pop pop" would be nice, that look and sound like today's guns.
Personally I dislike like blew colored gun effects.

Character Names

Some names are really oorp sounding, I saw a spyglass with a <3 in it, other names that spring to mind are "A.Happy.Zoner", "An.Angry.Zoner", "Falling.Lollipop", which I think were made for trolling people. Name policies shouldnt be too strict, but sometimes you can really tell a troll by the name and admins should discourage people from "role playing" like that, in one way or another.

Role play

Personally I like humorous role play, if its well within RP canon. I like crude stereotypes, but I know some people dislike it. If I were to place myself in one of Jinx categories, I would probably be the Woody Allan type.

People RPing as carebears for example are funny sometimes, but I still think it kinda messes up other people role play experience, so it shouldnt be done.

I think there are too many people role playing nymphomaniacs. Sometimes they really creap me out, especially when they are trying to keep that RP with you in pm. Makes me wonder if they are sexual predators sometimes, considering there are lots of kids here.

Furry Osiris captains... no thanks, just no. Wouldnt mind if admins forbid that, although it may sound kinda mean, since its probly just kids projecting some cartoon they know into discovery.


OORP-driven RP

This is what I get annoyed at most in discovery. Dont know if it got worse or if its just me noticing it more.

Its mainly people who tell indies to stand down and not gank the enemy. "Fairness" is always what they say drives them, but in truth its oorp friendships and trying to impress higher ups by doing them the favor of letting them win the fight by holding back people who are just doing their basic RP and helping their own faction, like any real person in that faction would do.

It annoys me especially when the enemy are actually highly trained pvp pros, who pop up right in front of Manhattan or other hostile bases, looking for pvp against noobs. Defending an ally is NEVER a bad sort of ganking. The pros are using the "fairness" argument to be unfair towards noobs who are no good at pvp. This is what ruins my experience mostly lately. Right now its even at the point where I enjoy playing with noobs (or maybe not noobs, but people who stay off the forums) in my team more than playing with veterans. Noobs (or forum abstainers) are mostly cooperative and nice, while a lot of veterans are driven by all sorts of disco-politics which is contrary to logical RP and layed back easy going gaming.

Suggestions
I think in summary, a lot could be done to improve immersion in the mod. Maybe a bit more lore and guidelines brought to players through bar rumors and infocards. To remove the disco-politics mixing in RP, I think a few things should be removed from the rules section. First, remove "rule" 0.0. It leads to more complaining as well as people brushing away complains with "rule 0.0 says dont be annoyed so dont be annoyed by what ever I do". Secondly, remove the part where it says official factions have the duty to insure "fair play". Most of the times this is used as a pretext to make your friend in the enemy faction win. Thirdly, make it clear that defending your ally against someone who attacked him, or against people who provoked you by flying in front of you taunting you is not a gank, its realistic role play. Mabe with an admin statement or something.