Gallia is "Dead"?

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I still appreciate the massive amount of work the dev team has done here--even if they have on occasion taken a turn or two being huge ...well.

A big part of the reason Star Citizen got the momentum it did is that Chris saw the modding community for Freelancer and what they had done with a dated engine--things that were way beyond it's design. He has mentioned several times the "large, active Freelancer modding community" and nothing as a single effort qualifies any better for that than Discovery.

The other thing is these guys do it for free and if I had been a mod developer here, I'd have snapped mentally and been mailing dead cats to half the players on the mod over the years --they can be incredibly needy and angry--just putting up with some of them grants the admins at least a pass on their own individual wacky moments.

Igiss, has ALWAYS, been NOTHING but a complete gentleman and deserves huge props and respect for his work and leadership. There was a time back in the day when he answered personal questions for me--as a new player here--and I was completely impressed with his real graciousness.

There is so much untapped in Freelancer (despite the bugs) that I really hate the idea of it "not being here". A lot of global players won't be able to play Star Citizen because of the cost or bandwidth or pc requirements and Freelancer will be "their baby" for awhile yet.

I came here NOT a fan of an RP server and many some ways, I still am not (don't ask). But the RP here--aside from allowing people to inhabit their own narcissistic dreams--has really helped shape a potentially extremely fun environment and has helped provide a means to augment game mechanics with believable and useful features that game engine can't provide.

So thanks guys and even when SC comes out, I won't overlook or forget what's been done here. I have only played regularly on three FL servers over the years and the three I stayed on had real communities of friends. I'd hope that remains true here.

The number of "full-on, invested" players is lower and Discovery was definitely crafted with the old large and obsessive play crowd in mind. So yeah, it's stretched a bit now. Nothing a few design changes can't improve--more work for the volunteers.

Thanks guys.

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