(12-14-2019, 09:04 PM)Xalrok Wrote: While the intent of Discovery Freelance RP 24/7 was never the canonization of player roleplay
This little statement has helped me realize that this mod is basically already dead. The basis of this game was not to have a player-base, it was to make the devs feel good. I didn't actually know this before. Thanks for the eye opener.
This has always been the case. The idea of canonizing RP wasn't a thing until the third or fourth shot of adrenaline wore off and the acute heart failure patient started shutting down again. For years the policy on writing lore was "never include anything players caused". That's why the mod has no acknowledgement of major player encounters that left their mark on community lore, like the eight-way war in Omega-3, or the battles of Tau-23, or the Hogosha-Junker wars, or the Libertonian terrorist and his seven dwarves in a Kusari Explorer.
The dubious nature of the Player Request system and the Faction Perks system were the first thing players ever got to try to change that. But how those really work internally was never actually given to the community, and the usage of them suffered. The only people who ever managed to consistently get everything they could out of them were the people who were either part of the dev and/or admin teams, or had faction 2iCs/3iCs who were. Then we got FCRs, which... no one really knows how they work. Because no one's ever managed to pass one yet. Now we've got these, which are so ill-documented and yet another thing being operated as a "pay money, maybe get a thing in an indeterminate amount of time" scheme that I genuinely expected it to have its price in United States dollars instead of Sirian credits.
It's like Star Citizen, except instead of paying real money for the privilege of funding a game that may never come out, you're playing a dying game to make money in it to pay that back to the game for the privilege of maybe having your name in it.
