What is to do in the server?

[[GBS]Cherry2Blost[COL]]

Hate against new groups purely depends on the group. In some cases, it is more about the fact that the group is made by new players, who clearly haven't adapted to the unwritten rules and ethics of Disco and their actions, while for them they make sense, seem utterly out of place for everyone else.

Sadly, such rules are way too complex to simply explain to someone new. Not to mention that if the new players can't even do something as mundane as read the server rules, I find it increasingly hard to expect them to learn anything above that.

Aye agreed on those points, but those who weather the storm of outright indignation from the playerbase are still hamstrung by Forummed RP which often takes days to get something moving; due to delays in replies or people just not bothering to reply as they are 'above' such people. Or their activity level is so low as to make such interactions way too slow for a fast paced game.

We have been able to begin to embrace the existing RP but this still leaves the issue of pre existing pretty much dead 'ingame' factions dictating terms on newer players.

On the 'our type of player question', maybe this is the reason for the lack of non lawfuls, as they are smacked down as soon as they hit the server and/or suddenly there are shed loads of battleships resurrected from graveyards to suddenly make it impossible to play the unlawfuls as a new group. Miraculously x faction disappears from server and y faction appears to undertake said smackdown.

Not all new groups can/want to field Battleships and thus interest is lost once more, and the circle begins again.

I dunno, the RP is so well written and it is easy to see how much work has gone into it but numbers are numbers and the original point of the thread was about numbers and these were just my observations and musings on maybe why the numbers are an issue?

Please do not do the usual and take my observations out of context, they are intended to be constructive and not destructive, the server is here the lore is there, we just wish there was more to it than just Forum RP and newbie bashing.

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