(12-15-2019, 03:09 PM)Wulthus Wrote: I'll be blunt. Devs shouldn't be making the story of disco. It is our job. Job of the players and many factions they are involved.
IMHO If a Dev wishes to see his version of the story included in the cannon, he should go trough the process like any other player, submitting stories on forums, creating a faction, gaining support and "paying the bills".
I can't help but see this as just another way for the devs to keep their story on rails. There's nothing good in adding another layer of complication to alredy complicated system.
You are entirely right. If this game was truly dictated by the players, we wouldn't have had the long lines of stupid powder that had already been snorted by the community. The only reason I returned to this game is that I heard that there wasn't Auxusia F1nd in Bering waiting to shoot my transport with 3 capships. Now, seeing that the devs have decided to flex their "im the dev, you don't matter" ideals again, I'm once again tempted to leave. In the end, I may just stay here out of spite, but that's for time to tell.
However, if there was anyone willing to take what's left of this after the impending collapse, and make a version that actually cares about the people, I, and many others, would like to play that. It also would have been nice if all the original freelancer factions had been more fully developed from the start. Gaians don't have actual capships, even though their pre-established lore points calls them "rich kids". Xenos lore would have me believe that they have a MASSIVE population within their numbers, simply because of the numbers of people affected by corporate outsourcing in real life. They should have full development of things that large numbers of people would have, including cruisers. And at this point, I'm not putting gunships in the same class as gunboats or above. They're really just big snubs, and putting them in the same class as gunboats is just pretending that they have the same effect.
As far as I can see, Devs have done the bare minimum of developing the factions that they are not part of, and that, at it's core, is why this game is dying. It had the potential to be something so great, we would have troubles because Microsoft would want it back, and now we're here, where every interaction between players ends in 2 or more sanctions, where the people in charge of making this game good have openly declared that they don't care, where the economy is broken in such a way that new players leave almost immediately, where you can't play a trader without getting pirated twice for every jump you make, where the only thing that truly reigns supreme is a self-centered circle of literal corruption. Welcome to the Discovery Freelancer 24/7 RP that will carry into the future, folks. Welcome to Disco 2020. Have fun, if you can.
