A radical idea

[Lucky Luke]

Yeah, so I've been seeing how this community has been going downhill for a while, and now there are several threads about "saving FL". Since I left the game back in 4.86, I can't really say how 4.87 is working out, but... I'm suuure it's all good, considering the threads I mentioned. But enough of that!

The radical idea is to bring back 4.85 in all it's glory!

I know it might be tricky to do coz of the anticheat and stuff, but maybe it could be done using the current mod. I'll leave that issue to those who actually know their stuff. The following two quotes represent the opinion of most players that were around to experience the Golden days.

the LN-RM raids, the sair raids on Bretonia, OC-Sair fights, BHG pews.

However, I found it hard to have fun when you hardly ever meet anybody and organised actvity is hard to get. Flying on a server with ~50 players with like... 100 systems is a problem.

It needs to be streamlined, focussed on the essential part of interaction.

Bringing back 4.85 would mean:

• Mining hotspots where all sorts of rabble and law enforcement gather.
  

• Easy access between IMG and OC's
  

• Easy access between Sairs and OC's
  

• A rollback on the political tensions between Liberty and Order.
  

• A complete removal of POB's and all the items produced there. (Cloaks, JD's etc.)
  

• A complete removal of POB's. (I did that twice, coz that's one of the main issues to why people leave.)
  
  

These are things that would benefit player interaction. Bringing back 4.85 would also mean removing a lot of Gallia. I'm all for that, but I know that many want it where it is. What's undisputable is the fact that there are simply too many systems. Most of them could easily be removed without anyone even noticing it.

The Golden Days of 4.85 meant a lot of butthurt for the Admins. There was A LOT of activity in Dublin especially, and with that a lot of problems. Tau 23 and Omega 7 were also mining hotspots filled with activity. Before the mining mod was introduced, me and a couple of friends used to mine iridium in Kansas. Lots of activity around that too. There were more or less daily raids between OC-IMG, OC-Sairs. Liberty-Rheinland war was hot. All these things meant pewpew and RP, which is why I liked it so much. The endless grinding it meant to supply a POB killed all that activity in one swift blow.

So... How about it? Wanna bring back 4.85? Maybe some oldfags like me returns.