So what's up with bases and Roleplay?

[Black Widow]

It is not bases' fault, but peoples', who lost grip on the roleplay.
It is all about players.

People lose grip on RP because they are too concerned with their base they have "NO TIME" for anything else!

Blackwidow: What is Freelancer for you?

For me, it is "gather a bunch of people, load up in T23, fly to New Berlin as a convoy, drop off ore, get supplies for base 1, move to the base, mine, get ore, move to Harris, buy base supplies, end at base 2".

Another example from the bases I administrate: We add indies who like to make money by mining and selling to the base. That way, the mining fields are fuller, offering more interaction for unlawfuls, lawfuls, etc.

People just need to learn to:
a) place their bases well so ...
b) ... that their actual roleplay encompasses their bases
c) build bases that have a real reason to exist, meaning: they serve a purpose and add to the roleplay

What is freelancer if not: fly around (best: where other people also are), meet people, talk a little, shoot pixels ... if well done, all of these activities are done as a team? Bc that's what Disco is for me.

Freelancer for me is fulfilling the storyline of the game, like Bretonia there is a war with Gallia who have invaded us yet the Gallic Player Population is no where to be seen! I was on my Dunkirk BS yesterday waiting for targets there was none not a Frog insight then I notice on Playerlist: 3 RNS in Berry are so what they doing there? Guarding a playerbase of one of their friends, so the RP in Bretonia is suffering coz some idiot has a base in Berry he wants protecting meh......

Looking at the situation you described as what freelancer means to you well thats good but 99% of bases that exist do not serve their owners as Falster and Siloso do for you, they are just factories to build cool equipment like Docking Mods, JDs and Cloaks of which take a lot of work to complete thus every base owner is only ever supplying his base and nothing else. Where does that leave the RP'r like me in space alone with just NPCs for company.

Even the situation in which you are involved in supplying base 1 and 2 seems quite sad in that the sole purpose of your convoy is to supply a player base, what happen to RP convoys of IMG hauling cargo for the sake of Money from A to B with the risk of Outcasts intercepting you on your journey.

Im sorry but hats to Cannon for proving he is a Coding God for being able to Code Freelancer in C++ to make Player Bases a reality but the buck stops there. POB is not what discovery is about, discovery is about INTERACTION need I say More?

If that interaction occurs while a player is supplying his base and disturbed by it then that is just sad.

I spoke to two base builders the one guy who runs the Blackpool Facilities in Manchester before the Defense Annexe was destroyed he was supplying 3 Core lvl 4 bases and for what, what is the point in having 3 bases in 1 system?

He told me all his time was spent supplying them and nothing else, how sad what a waste of a player forced to supply bases he has helped build because if he does not it will be destroyed.

Thats another thing that is sad about bases they are like gambling once you have built one you are forced to supply it or lose it, even if that means sacrificing all your player time on it. Its like the base owner has no choice but thats natural when you have put so much time into something but what about everyone else?
They suffer too when theres no one to RP with.

Make bases easier to supply and build thus they will become another gimmick of discovery and people will have more freetime to fly their own chars and take part in RP.