Introducing people to Disco through unlawful characters might harm their experience.

[Curios]

This all boils down to wanting to avoid unfriendliness, IRP and OORP.

I think it depends on what kind of a challenge you like and how you handle blowing up. I enjoy playing unlawful, but I like getting back on my feet after I get knocked down.

I don't personalize it. Its just part of the game.

In the end it really depends on WHO this newbie is. If you find the right kind of person, they will make it work-- lawful or not.

Ahaha, ok. manly man here. "I like getting back on my feet after I get knocked down". Rofl. But like it's a reason for players to stay. Keep trying is usually good thing to do but mostly applies to the situations that you know how to handle in the end, or at least you know the few next steps. If you're completely new to the game or it's special features like some magic "RP" or so then you have no idea about what to do next if you got screwed around for a couple of times. Of cause we, as people who already play the game are hardly imagine how it can be any difficult to play here. I, myself, was making closed economy chars starting from the bare restart freelancer stuff ending up with hundreds of millions after few hours. But one must know the trick. Now imagine that you bang your head against the wall and forgot everything about the mod, about the factions, rp, ship stats, everything. You only know the vanilla. So you come into the mod and you're not even spawning at manhattan (omg). Then you try some vanilla trade routes like Lux Food from Manhattan to New London. It doesn't work! What do? Then while you're trying to figure out the crap you're constantly getting "space is dangerous" effect on you in form of 2millordie pirates, hostile factions (that you don't even know they are hostile to you but they are not saying anything except "ENGAGING" to you - I saw it many times in the Hamburg when RM was attacking new players coming from the Liberty - they could not even understand why they are getting attacked in the first place) and other odds that we have in numbers.

That'd be great to be nice to the others and fair to opponents, but who is doing this at the moment? Barely few is my guess. What is done to improve anything? Nothing actually, quiet the contrary to be honest.

Some guy, whos name and faction I won't mention here, was telling me that ganking is actually pure RP and it's called the "use of the advantage in numbers". Some time lately he said that he's pissed how the opposite side have used the same "numbers advantage" on him.

Really, is the little victory against a poor guy worth the effort of pissing the players off the server? I doubt so. However that's how this community is working at the moment. And then we're even wondering what is going on with the people leaving that fast. Old game? Pls. It was as old as now even 3-4 years ago. This year the Freelancer have celebrated it's 10 y.o birthday. I can count the games that lasted at least for half of that with fingers on my hands.

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