Where are the Corsairs?

[Jinx]

ways to increase popularity:

- make up your mind what you want! - if you are annoyed by frequent raids, and you complain just enough, you ll get "buffer systems" included. that will reduce the raids - but make you a lot more lonely.
RP and interaction is often on opposite sides. - but the general idea of a mmo is to PLAY TOGETHER. so the WORST thing you can do is to block players. ( PoBs that block jumpholes ) if you accept those - you isolate yourself from other players. that is NOT the fault of the PoB - it is the fault of the player(s) building those PoBs.

they may make sense inRP - but they significantly harm playing "together" ( and together includes against each other )


- respect other ppls roleplay! - corsairs have kind of a history of - lets call it "aggressive roleplay" that more than often extended beyond simple inRP. - and was justified with "cause we can" or "deal with it"

the consequence is that those who did not want to deal with it - or felt harrassed ..... left. - apply that kind of roleplay too often - and you ll create a very natural "buffer" around yourself - while you exhume an air of repulsion around you.

again - play WITH others, not against them - "cause you can" is often not very smart, cause what YOU can ... might be too much for others - so the limits of what YOU should do is the smallest threshold of what anyone involved can take.


- be creative! - so the old corsair ways do not work anymore or do not attract new players? - maybe they are just "too old" - try out new things. - you might find yourself failing a dozen times trying out new things... but eventually you may find something new that does the trick again.


- adapt! - so piracy got harder? - you cannot solo pirate EVERYONE with a single bomber or a gunboat? - yea, that requires adjustments. - so team up with others. find no one to team up with - nither ingame directly or on the forum after trying hard? - ok, thats the time you may want to give up ( or come up with other creative ideas )



also - popularity of factions and regions is kind of seasonal. sometimes a specific faction is simply not "in" - and it is a lot harder to revive it.



in practical terms...

... buffer systems and replacement battlegrounds ( eta or now the sigmas ) were included because YOU ( corairs, outcasts ) complained so much that the devs had to put them in. you WANTED the distance between you and your enemies to be greater.

feeling a bit alone is the logical consequence of that demand. - and probably also the point of it.

also - i do remember you guys tried to make a point that outcasts and corsairs are actually not at war at all - but its more a brotherly misunderstanding with the occasional skirmish.


another cause of boredom is a consequence of a faction "that has all it needs..."

so you RPed that your food is well covered by samura and IND. - good for you
you RPed that your economy flourishes and you can deploy dozens of warships - fine
you RPed that you even have the fleet capacity to attack various random targets and that you are not at all in a military stalemate with the hessians anymore ( cause if you were, you would not divert ships to shoot - uh... lets say - zoner stations ) - and that is also fine

so - no starvation, no lack of resources, ever growing fleets and no shortage of manpower.

is there anything the corsairs ( just focussing on corsairs, cause it is a corsair thread btw. ) still do need? ( except for a world where steak grows on trees and gravy rains from the skies )

the last question is the one without any sarcasm. - it is an actual question, cause a faction that has it all - looses its momentum. the only momentum is to maintain the status quo - and that is much easier to do than to improve a situation.

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