Social Survey: Why people are loosing interest to Discovery?

[Kauket]

A mix of posts got this on the head.

• - Bad moderation, incredibly biased, bad behaviour, and the fact that you can't even trust some moderators to keep their mouth shut is concerning, especially regarding account privacy (whos alt is this, nothing to do with dox. )
  
  - No one roleplays properly. It's just dumb memes or subpar english. If I wanted to have a roleplaying experience I would have to do it elsewhere. People also don't understand the concept of playing a character because they think it's all about the user behind it, there is too much assumption about the player behind it. But people will also use it to be toxic and be an asshole for the sake of it and just say its their character.
  
  -Requests take too long because of bureaucracy. And because of insane time limits. Good luck getting an SRP, the requirements are entirely arbitrary.
  
  -Development taking crazy turns, they lack input of others, some do their own thing, some straight up are biased to others. Story is way too slow, and straight up ignores some factions. Too much personal opinions. Notice how Bretonia is dead and boring because they suddenly jumped back up to being a power house instead of a cripple with remnants to fight off? Now there's nothing. Also cramming systems together with ALL of the bases is bad design. Oversaturation of bases spread out the system at every end makes it harder to interact/intercept people because they will dock and log off.
  
  -Change is too slow, and you can't even make story requests because the other side who's involved will just say "no" and nothing happens. (Why the tf is that even thing? Oh I need your OFL permission to move things on a hostile path...??? This isn't about stomping on people because "haha we're better than u" but providing a story, as we all should enjoy)
  
  - Toxicity, especially when people in higher positions represent the community and are seen just being straight up assholes, and are somehow immune to repurcussion. There's also the fact that people are incredibly hypocrites and are straight up tinkerbells that cry all the damn time when something doesn't go their way. For a Roleplay community, this is laughable when you know majority of people are adults. Roleplay is supposed to provide a story, something interesting to follow along, like a dnd campaign. The game is not your sandbox, you are not playing chess or stellaris, you have nothing to lose here. There's too much OORP attachment and nasty attitude.
  
  -The game is very dead. I can open up the player list to who's on and immediately get bored, there's nothing to do in game. You can't play your preferred faction because chances are, your opponents aren't active. The only hyper active place as per usual is Liberty. Also for some reason people will just straight up opt to not log. Nothing interesting happens because man will just log on, screenshot, and get you fr5'd from a house if you dare to do bad things outside of house space. Also from what I hear in other random community Discords, people notice the circlejerking and feel the mod is overcomplicated, even if the rules got simplified... There is a compelling lack of advertisement too. But, starting out as a newbie is unfun and confusing at times, you are thrown at with a wall of text. Maybe make it interesting somehow. Giving physical examples is better for learning than pages of text.
  
  -Economy is buggered. You can't always trade to your own faction because it might have missing sell points (eg, there's 2 hull panels, 1 varient doesnt even sell and the other misses some points to sell at. or stuff straight up doesn't sell at the bases. )
  
  -There's no cargo piracy. I hate trading. Trading is fkin awful and boring. I hate grinding but popping npcs is fun. It's more entertaining to right click at npcs and haul off with the loot. Maybe go even as far to add ore to some NPCs as a lucky rare encounter in House space or other spaces, give factions a reason to intercept hostiles and sell ore yourselves.
  

The game is just getting smaller, boring, and even more dead because of these things. Fun is neutered. Progress is hindered by incompetence or personal bias. The only thing I miss about 85 in terms of mechanics is npc cargo piracy.

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