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[Croft]

I am... concerned. Zealot and Jack have brought up some good points. Discovery doesn't really feel wild and unexplored anymore.

I had always thought that the house militaries and police could only patrol house systems, and that the only "law" in the border and edge worlds was the Bounty Hunter's Guild.

But I haven't seen an Bounty Hunter Guild pilot since they were kicked out of Kusari. Now all I see is paramilitary "Core" ships, which are not the same thing.

There really isn't anywhere left to run that isn't claimed by someone looking to enforce their version of law and order. And that is sad. Sure, you could always choose to hang out in the Nomad systems, but those Nommie NPCs make it awful hard.

Currently, the Disco map looks like a Monopoly board with no empty properties. We just do lap after lap, collecting $200 and paying all the taxes to whomever owns the space we have landed on. And hence, we are all cookie-cutter pilots made from cookie-cutter templates in a cookie-cutter galaxy.

Not much left to 'discover', in all honesty.

House police can only operate within their borders but since the military ID's have a bigger selection of ships and playgrounds they've basically overshadowed the police minus the TLAGS system but power creep somewhat of a common theme in Disco, one only need to look at the Outcasts sitting in Liberty as proof of that.
So technically the BHG are still the "law" in those areas but with a lack of pirates on the lanes they've not had much reason to venture outwards.

The map on the otherhand is in the midst of a tug-of-war, some cry out for less systems, others cry out for more systems and the dev team is stuck in the middle like a zookeeper surrounded by screeching howler monkeys. However I'd suggest not using terms if you don't understand them, the only part of Disco that falls under the "cookie-cutter" heading is arguably some of the factions but its a stretch to call any of them copies.

As for the mods name, I believe its a relic from its past back when Discovery was ship pack (which is why we have things like the Battlestar and Star Destroyer models). Though I find it telling that few consider that Discovery may also involve discovering players and characters as opposed to empty regions of space.

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