Connecticut needs to GO!

[Karst]

Any logical reason that they should even be there? For that matter any logical reason conn still exists?

Because some people like to practice pvp on specific ships without flying across Sirius for seventy million years.

Edit: No wait, let me elaborate.
Because people want to test various ships and loadouts against various other ships and loadouts with a simple "hey, can you log this?"
Because people want to easily test misc stuff, ranges, ship sizes, etc., in a convenient manner.
Because people want to transfer items they would be transferring anyway in a convenient, quick manner. And not by flying around, avoiding interaction to do a non-rp process.
Because people might have a quick question or comment they want to make in a relaxed atmosphere.

Because conn is FUN, and games are supposed to be fun.

That was six and a half years ago but really none of the reasons have changed.

Edit: Oh yeah, and

Removing it would deprive us of these positive amenities, which is bad, and definitely not automatically mean there are another 20 people to interact with in the live game. In fact, quite the opposite - if I want to be in Conn but there is no Conn, I won't be roleplaying in New York, I simply won't be on the server whatsoever.

I think the players that currently sit in Connecticut, would, for the most part, just not log in at all. It's a convenient place to shoot people with all sorts of loadouts (You can't conveniently do a "practice" Lynx vs Guardian duel in Virginia).

THIS. The only people that assume the players in conn would simply spend that time in the rp environment clearly aren't people who go to conn themselves. If I'm in conn, it means I don't want to be in the rp environment at this time, and if conn weren't there, I simply wouldn't be logging at all.
In fact, if I wanted to use conn as a 'lobby' to ease into the server, see where the activity is and decide if I want to go in, you not only wouldn't be gaining pop by removing it, you'd actually be losing it.

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