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[LuckyOne]

I'd very much love to see more people helping out instead of simply trying to rob/fine/blow up random newcomers. I'd also love people to be more accepting to other people's RP (be it in-game or on the forums) and not so "set in their ways". My experience so far has been a positive one, but I'm known as someone with much more patience / tolerance than the average person.

For such extremely small communities that exist for a long time, it's very hard to change anything without the risk of alienating a significant part of it. And that kind of thinking is precisely what leads to stagnation and "slow death over a long time", as the flow of new people in a community slows down to a trickle.

Frankly the only way to "save" Disco is to try and go "small, gradual changes, with every bigger patch" so that you preserve the existing playerbase and eventually attract newcomers.

The (over)abundance of rules is one of the things that scares newcomers away. I've been lurking for years and I can say things are a bit better than they used to be, but in my opinion, few of the recent changes were a step in the wrong direction, adding to, instead of compressing the ruleset.

If I had a say in how things should evolve I would go with gradually replacing some of the rules (those which are easily viewed as subjective, exploitable, and enabling for too much powers in too few hands) with sensible gameplay mechanics that can be implemented to be much more precise and make the experience more enjoyable for both the old hands and greenhorns, avoiding unnecessary drama.

Angels can of course help reach us that point, but are they a viable long term solution? Barring a few people who truly want to help others nobody wants to really sit in-game and wait for the help requests to come in. The whole community needs slowly change their attitudes towards newcomers, especially the ones who are also new to an RP environment.