Jinx's original post was simply about having more transparent involvement of all players in how Discovery progresses as a mod, plus some ideas about how to let players participate more and customize more.
If you're for that, you should say you're for that and why.
If you're not, try to state your reasons for why it would NOT be a good idea to let actual players have more of an impact on the Disco storyline. Also, why it would NOT be good to give faction members more of an ability to exercise their faction rights, and why it would NOT be good to be able to choose a new ship skin for your existing craft.
I see a lot of responses in this thread from folks who are mad, have been mad and are gonna stay mad.
I have seen a lot of OTHER ideas proposed, ideas that should probably be in their own threads, not this one.
Quite honestly, I've seen a lot of fatalism and suppressed rage-- focused on the devs "not doing anything, ever", focused on the POBs, focused on cap ships, focused on FR5s, focused on boredom, etc.
I don't care who said this stuff. This is not a back-and-forth. I am just sharing an observation.
All in all, I think what Jinx proposes is something good-spirited and open. More access, more involvement, more options.
tl;dr
I think Jinx's ideas are sound and should be implemented-- at the very least as a test run to see if more transparency and invitations to have a voice and be involved in decision making will make an impact on the attitude of the player base.
And if the texturers on the dev team are cool with developing ship skins, why not? Its just duplicating a few shiparch entries, changing one line and, of course, DAYS of work on a texture and mat file.
