Social Survey: Why people are loosing interest to Discovery?

[Haste]

Disco isn't efficient enough when it comes to fun per unit of time.

Probably the best TL;DR of the issue Disco is facing that you'll find in this thread.

There's just nothing (enjoyable) to do that doesn't involve other players already being logged in. Travel times are still - even after a lot of system culling and shrinking - very long. People here will unironically say "But Haste, that's part of the charm!". Yeah, it was charming in 2008. Nowadays it's just outdated. You can't reasonably expect players to fly for twenty minutes on the off chance that the player(s) they're looking to interact with haven't already logged off by the time you get there.

We need fun things you can do on your own or cooperatively so that people can log in and just have a good 'singleplayer' experience. But I'm not sure how feasible that is. Doesn't help that I can already hear the crying of players that got shot while doing whatever that activity is because how dare players shoot other players while they're [mining/trading/pve'ing]. And unfortunately, rather than telling those babies to suck it up, we'd probably end up catering to them.

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