New Player: First Impression of Discovery and it's learning curve.

[Manu]

I agree with the other points, but a "complete refocus" would drive off a large part of the old community. I don't even think that its even possible to make this game, or a RP community around it, suitable for 10 year olds.

There are reasons why Freelancer is a PG 13 game (so not for age 10), which go from violence and ability to understand the plot, and most of the community is currently been playing it more like a 15/16+ (with occasional guys who try to start "18+" RP with strangers, which I personally find annoying an inapproiate).

There's also the matter of addictiveness of this game. There are a number of people who got serious school and even mental problems from this game (or rather, from the community), which probably get worse the younger the person is.

Nobody is left behind but rather branching out to a younger audience to revitalize and add new blood to the mod. As I understand, the biggest assets of Disco are Numbers and RP, but you cant really RP without the numbers so numbers are vital for Disco. Betting to capture a younger audience is a great long investment for Disco. As I mentioned earlier there are other space games that are currently in way to be released and can eventually affect the numbers of Discovery but you cant calculate this now. The game is perhaps PG 13 but the mod per se isn't really a game. Still the target group could as well be 13 to 18. The matter of addictiveness is too subjective.