Social Survey: Why people are loosing interest to Discovery?

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There is a combination of factors that is driving people away.

Add there is very long beraucracy for requests that can last for weeks and months.

This is a big one. It takes me less time to obtain a specialized license for a sniper rifle, take courses on how to use it, disassemble/maintain it/repair/assemble it back, pass the psychological and gun safety tests and buy the rifle in Europe than it takes for some factions to obtain officialdom or for people to get their SRP's approved.

As if that wasn't bad enough, they make you provide regular proof of activity with that SRP/officialdom or else they wipe it. People are like "nah mate, I ain't gonna put up with all that when all I want is to play a videogame" and so they go play a videogame where they don't have to deal with it.

Another one: changing demographics.

Back in the past there was something for everybody, pvp server, testing server, etc...now you have the roleplayers lumped together with people who just want explosions, and people who just want a relaxing experience looking at fancy skyboxes and trading from point A to point B or sitting in an asteroid field mining and not care about having to write books of text just to play on the server, which leads to the dumbing down of the roleplay environment in general, pushing all 3 demographics off the server.

Economy: Everyone can trade for a week and buy themselves a brand new battleship and then it just sits there because they rushed their way to it and haven't learned even the basics of flying caps, making the time/effort investment feel like a waste.

Lack of flexibility of the mod.

Recently the devs have deleted several systems because they didn't see activity and to forcefully lump people together.

Instead of deleting systems because they aren't being used, how about making those systems worth being there in the first place?

Make a system the size of NY or Texas, add in ore fields, civilian bases that buy high, nebulas hiding wrecks and pirate bases, police bases near planets, Freeports that attract all sorts of pilots or other central trading hubs that buy or less commodities for good prices so people have reasons to actually go to those systems and spend their time there.

Make them spawn NPC capship fights

Alternatively, if the previous option is not good for whatever reason, why not give these systems special status where RP is not required and they're basically FFA kill zones. That will keep people who don't want to risk their cargo/don't want to fight, out of them, while providing less RP-oriented players with a reason to be on the server, in their own little spots where they don't bother anyone else.