Does Disco still have enough player base to keep running all factions ?

[Ursus]

My recollection of starting out on the server (October of last year) is that it was:

- difficult to get started. I knew vanilla pretty well but it was still radically different here, with different systems, mining areas, trade routes, etc. I couldn't find people willing to explain things either, and I didnt meet my first Angel until my 3rd or 4th ship at which point I no longer needed their help. What's interesting now is that it is very easy to get started if you know what to do, but at the time I was helpless and lost. I had to rely on Internet searches for everything and it was all outdated stuff. Wiki is contradictory on a lot of stuff, like RP fiction in the infocards that does not correlate to gameplay at all (can I really fly this ship into the atmosphere?? kee-rash)

- confusing rules and RP layering into each other in complicated ways. The server rules need to be simplified, or need to be explained better (the console spam for the 4-hour rule is very poorly worded, and a lot of novices don't understand what it means).

- twit PVP. I was killed all the freakin time, not just by pirates but by people who did it just because they could. I got killed by people on the badlands tradelane all the time, for no apparent reason. The first time I ventured out of house space I was killed by a Tridente in Cortez with a double-missile strike before I could ask what was going on. I almost raeged over that a couple of times in my early days. At the very least, Pennsylvania needs to be made a safe zone with no non-consual PVP, and exempted from some of the penalty rules, so that there is a place to figure out the game mechanics without being forced into 4-hour dirtnaps.

I've been thinking about a noob guide for a while, and will try putting one together

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