Devs require majority approval from community for major changes

[Binski]

I vote w/ Binski

Thanks! So I don't always talk to myself here!

Most coups that I know of have produced more negative than positive consequences for the citizenry of their countries. Stability is a handy thing, but the coup's already happened, there is no going back (not without another coup at least), so we'd better learn to live with the consequences of having allowed it to happen.

No one has the means for another coup anyways. Ironically coup's are often avoided by having regular, fair, free and open elections of the people in charge. Most of the time with places like this that would be an absurd concept. As far as a community goes, we have dictators. It would work better if there wasn't such an obvious disconnect between the leadership and player base. The problem is, the devs are accustomed to taking criticism over every decision, so at a certain point they just make a choice and go.

But their solutions always seem to them like there's no other choice, when its more like there are options they won't even consider, that are where the real answers lie. For example, most of this seems to be to slow down player driven canonization and RP impact. Most of us seem to think if we could do more of this, and easier, it would lead to more going on, there would be more going on. We seem to need more staff to cover the problem, but that means power sharing, which seems off the table. So with who we have is who the work is spread out around.

Discovery Freelancer is at a serious crossroad since the end of the Gallic War. The devs seem to have been prepared to let things fizz out from here on, when many are ready to finally get on to something new. The next 5 years can be one where we have shrunk to what other servers were like, or we move forward with a REVAMP. We need the rules rework Karlotta has worked hard on, we need more staff it seems, we need organization brought to RP canonization (beyond generic like it is now and has always been) and organization brought to the wars/battle scenarios with regards to player/RP impact.

The way its been has worked to get us this far, but times have changed. People are only drawn here by the allure of flying a space ship, but its the deeper aspects of the 'world' and its potential for invovlement and continuity that would keep someone here. As the years have passed, we probably need a new approach on how to manage the game, and how to play the game (especially when it comes to the value of RP investments).

It would probably be a good idea for the staff to come back from the hollidays and instead of planning the next patch, plan a new system for the game, and one that can accomodate for the game as if we want it growing, not as if the mod should be winding down.

If RCR's were passed quickly and implimented quickly, the game would feel less stagnant (imagine RCR'ing a news story and it be added every month, or regular news updates in game often instead of years between). And of course, if we had a system governing the wars and faction conflicts in conjunction with that, we'd be in shape to make the next 5-10 years more worth the effort. The server may never be huge again but it appears to be smaller than what it should be. Thats if we plan go keep it going for that time. Its at the point where 2000's games will be retro gaming soon, we'll be keeping it going for the sake of having one of the oldest game worlds still going, so it has a chance to survive a while yet, but not as its been the last ten years.

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