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[KaelanFrey]

My point is this. If you think negatively on someone you've never had any interaction with outside of being an audience to their negativity, all you'll ever judge them on is that alone.

My two cents.

And this ideology is rampant in the Discovery community, your two cents couldn't be closer to the truth of the matter and I believe that this way of thinking is the real root of many problems, often perpetuated by the misjudging of certain actions as "bad" when they really aren't.

From what I've seen in just two months, it seems as if a lot of people judge a person (or their entire factions!) in a permanent and often negative matter based on one or two idiotic things that they did, which is an extremely harsh way of treating fellow players; for whatever reason, things are done the way they are - I honestly don't care for most of it, but one thing is worthy of attention: it creates further segregation between groups and an ever-growing hostile environment in the community, almost forcing a person to take a side and stick with it or leave. This is especially evident considering that drama happens in the forums weekly(?) and sometimes pits the same groups of people again and again.

I don't know about you guys, but I find that a bit uncomfortable, considering that I just want to play Freelancer and pretend to be a dude or two living in its universe 23 years after some idiots sorta pwned the Nomads, 6 years after the "woops France actually didn't die a thousand years ago now it's mad at u!!!" thing started. I can't just ignore this ominous cloud of hatred, either; that's dumb.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to "wussify" Discovery here. I honestly do not expect, demand or even imagine that all Discovery players should play 100% nice and befriend everyone in-game or out or inRP or ooRP or in third/fourth/fifth/communist party programs, or whatever medium really. In the end this is all just fun and games so criticism/banter/light-hearted jabs, which are good things, will exist.

But here's the punchline: we're all trying to create a universe of our own here, right? Instead of being so negative even to people whom we consider to be "unreasonable", why not help them contribute positively instead? Why drop the ball entirely and go "okay this guy's a moron, an idiot, a complete bellend, screw him and everyone associated with him" over a stupid thing or two? (of course, there are some exceptions to this, such as repeat offenders who just won't learn the rules of the game. I don't expect you guys to have the patience of saints, either. however, if the opportunity for change for those people exists, then it should very well be embraced.)

This is all very complicated to fix, but my first suggestion is for everyone who feels a bit bitter about Discovery to have some empathy and try to get a good perspective of what's going on - in a game where you can play so many characters in so many places in so many different situations, context means everything and that's really easy to outright hide or not notice. Even though the community is shrinking, the game is still much bigger than what you usually see when you're playing or just casually browsing the forums.

I'm sorry for going a bit off-topic, but that quote really lit a lightbulb somewhere in this numbskull which I call my head. Also I'm trying really really really hard not to provide examples but I can clarify a few things if you want.