Taira Clan of Blood Dragons

[Tyroflion]

The reason is quite simple, really. Discovery is based on buddies. Trying to do something new? Nobody cares if you don't have xy friends among admins/veteran players. Want to join an event? Tough luck we made it with friends no place for you random newbie. Don't belive me?
Look here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=103327

We asked why can't we join? The answer? Because they organized it with buddies. Tough luck try next time....maybe.

It's part of Discovery that I hate the most. Nobody cares how good you are. Nobody cares how much time you invest in creating original content, how well developed your lore, documents, politics and recruitment are. The only thing Discovery cares about? How many veterans do you personally know and how many mods/admins/devs/whatever will join you. You don't have any? Tough luck then I'm not interested in joining.

It's quite simple, really, new recruits are either people who have played Discovery for a long time and want to try something new as a faction but will not join you if you don't have enough admins/veterans for them to care about you. Then there are new players, many of which are brought to Discovery by veteran players. Which leads to the first problem. Veterans won't join you and they won't advise new players to join you. Angels won't advise for new players to join you. Essentially your only recruits will be the people who accidentally come to the forum find your faction info and THEN are impressed enough to join. As you can see to pass all these conditions is pretty hard.

Still it isn't necesarilly a bad thing. It gives us time to develop our faction the way we want to and it gives us the chance to focus on the important parts. RP, training our new players in PvP skills and creating Taira based events and fun. Plus as an unofficial faction we are less constrained by rules and can enjoy greater variety of members and crafts that our pilots fly. Also we did get some new recruits from Drakes| who realized that their way of playing is wrong and joined us so we have some recruits who are learning the game, the rules, PvP and all.

Since recently we have been mostly engaging Iseijin it's a tough school and I'm pleased to see that after playing catch a nuke and dodge a Nomad gunfire for a while, our week-old recruits are doing pretty well in Connecticut getting some victories to boost their confidence and realizing that maybe dying over and over to the infected scum may be the best school of PvP there is.

Overall it's a sad thing but it isn't gonna change. We can either accept it or we can cry about it. In a true Taira fashion we can do both and still look fabulously doing it. After all there is nothing as sexy as a manly warrior writing sad haiku with one tear slowly falling from his face on a sheet of rice-paper.

Taira over&out

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Disco has a way of bringing you back whether you want to or not. So yes, I'm back.
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