Alright, I will spare you the wall of text here. Recently I've been trying to get a friend of mine into Disco with very mixed success so far. (I am also totally NOT using the poor sod as a guinea pig for future tutorial stuff for nublets) The person at hand is a veteran Rper and a lover of pen and pencil stuff, but also enjoys scifi and has played FL in a distant past.
Needless to say, the first impressions on Disco for them were less than stellar. As they put it, you cannot spit in a random direction without being ejected out from any pretense of immersion as the server and forum RP is full of internet community references - pop culture, movies, memes and other. The biggest problem so far are names.
The culling of any sort of modern references and memes was a habit some of our older admins took to with a great gusto. Notable names being Virus and Laowai as well as Reverend Del. The later of the three would just .kill them while we would chill next to trade lanes on our Rogues.
Back in 84 risque or ''funny'' or ''ironic'' names were mostly reserved for the LR- player faction, but - sadly, became the norm. Especially for me. Though at the time I did not really think that it would matter much if I flew around with ships named LNS-You.What.Mate, LNS-Imrus or other stupidities. Well, it has gotten to the point that half of the character names ingame are references and memes. That is not even counting the amount of people using country tags, foreign names and other things.
The forum itself also has the same ''Xbox Live'' attitude with people embracing their anonimity and online personas. Say what you want about the RP quality in 84, the forums at least were a lot more serious and you could have a thread discussing perhaps even rather riskey material without being spammed with spiderman and other garbage.
So yeah, it is this thread again. It is stupid to expect people to change their attitude even if the admins suddenly decide to enforce the very rules that they have written regarding forum conduct and ingame behavour, but if that is the case, we might as well drop the, personally opinion, outright foolish pretense of a RP community and open the server for a much broader demographic. Most RP-loving people need a serious enviroment they can immerse themselves in, without a feeling that all of the community are sitting in the background, rolling their eyes at their RP posts. As the person mentioned, it seems that Discovery Freelancer is a "Ironic" portray of a Roleplay community. That we might as well drop the act. If anything, it will at least generate activity.
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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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