Social Survey: Why people are loosing interest to Discovery?

[Shokanshi]

Honestly I love the long travel times and I really dislike the system purging and travel time purging because it ruins the exploration and larger feel of the universe. The problem that has caused the most headache and more toxic faction behavior is because of the simplification the developers have done. I understand the thought process on their reasonings but it causes more problems and just repeating bandaid solutions, its gone down this rabbit hole:

1. Players have started to quit due to game age, stress, drama and low activity - SOLUTION: Cut systems.
2. Less systems means groups and commodities must be centralized. - SOLUTION: Lower commodity price to fit new travel distances.
3. Lower commodity prices causes less traders and smugglers, causing systems to become more low activity - SOLUTION: Step 1.

Add in to that the remaining players play/run factions across the entire galaxy and 'chase' after activity rather than just logging in and playing one area nowadays its just a cascading effect of the server dying.

Now to be fair, the deletions are necessary because of all the constant additions but I could of told you that when Gallia was added. Gallia was the biggest mistake this mod has ever made, we simply even back then did not have the player base to spread even further thin. I originally quit, alongside many others, around that time because I felt the game was dead. I was a member of the [RM] and we were bored as hell saying the game was dead because Rheinland had only 20ish people in the house when we were online with most people being police or miners instead of smugglers. Now if you look at Rheinland we hardly get 5 people a day in the house.

The other huge problem that others have pointed out is the bureaucracy that this server for some reason has, I understand the original purpose but we no longer are a server with 200-300 players online at a time. Just to make KAM| I had to wait a month after making my faction to then send a request that took a month to even be added to the tracker then still wait two more months to get voted on. This isn't just limited to Official Faction creation its just an easier to see and more public example of how long it takes.

If you have an OF Request or an SRP request it might be months till you hear anything in relation to your request, if you even hear back at all, as you can't see your thread and have no idea what to do other than PM team members on the forums and discord to hear either nothing or a "please wait." canned response. I've had faster times emailing Frontier Development for their game Elite Dangerous to get an event added than a mod community team, it took Frontier three weeks with back and forth communication but it took this community over a month and a half to get a singular "Oh, sorry." response.

Finding ways to support players in singular regions or giving some love to their playstyle would be the best way to fix interest and fix the losing of our limited sized playerbase.