Admin Notice: Factions

[Skullz]

I agree with Altejago and Madvillian mostly.

It is easy to see that in the point towards OSC. Over the past 2 years it's indie player base, that never belonged to the main group of players pushing towards making a Official faction, has dwindled about an average of 20. The last time I saw a OSC Indie was so he could use a Liner as a walking fortress for Ore-Hauling from the Comet in the Omega's.

I know the dev's did in the last mod, try to improve the people commodities for trading. But that effect was only short lived, and the most profitable routes for those commodities, were ones that made no sense of any kind. These are routes of going in to Gallia, which OSC players avoid, because we in roleplay know we will got shot down by every lawfull, and won't be able to dock at the sell/buy locations inside.

Simply put, OSC is still completely a Rp focused faction, and is one of those factions that is slightly more unpopular to play, even though it has allot of outside support. Many a time, I tried to use this support, especially with other roleplay factions. Like XA-, however most of these events failed to get of the ground when push came to shove. OSC made other events as well, we then did as what would others advised. However this didn't have an effect, other then increase our awareness a little.
So, now to my own point. Even upon finding players who are of the old breed, be them new or old, (Incase of new, not falling to temptations of pvp madness) those players still go towards factions that they like. Most of the time, this is completely unbaised to how well or bad that faction is run. Where a bias maybe does come in, is when they decide to join the factions official faction.

The other thing I would like to say is, if we would really want disco to continue, in a way that we would like, then we need to gain those types of players. And make it interesting for them. Doing this is much more likely to solve the short term issue of problems we are currently facing with factions dropping rapidly in activity. As well as the long term of the overall activity drop of disco.

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