4.91 Theming and Storyline

[Lythrilux]

First off, I think there's a definite correlation in the gallic expansion and the movement of the player base. People have often complained about how nearly 100% of server activity seems packed into the omicrons (namely omicron delta and the surrounding systems), and they're always wondering why we have so much activity in eastern/southeastern sirius rather than where all the mod updates are happening. It's pretty obvious to me: anything to do with gallia pushes people away. Players want to be as far from that clusterf*** as possible, and that's the omicrons. Now, I'm not complaining, as it's given a huge boost in activity to the factions I always played for the most (Order, Core, Nomads, etc.), but at the same time I can see a definite negative impact on the mod as a whole due to the changes that have been made in the name of 'story advancement'.

My unbiased opinion is that the mod focus, or at least all the splash screens etc that advertise one of the story elements of the mod, should be the Omicrons / Edge Worlds at least. It's consistently the most active region in the game (having surpassed Liberty in recent years). An arguably, it's had the most 'player-sourced' stories with actual gravity and impact.

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