Social Survey: Why people are loosing interest to Discovery?

[Thunderer]

@Haste I had quite a lot of fun with Disco in singleplayer before I went online. The caveman I was, I didn't have internet connection yet, so everything was a mystery. Every ship was a curiosity, every system was a region to explore and find something epic, spooky, fun or an Easter egg here and there. I loved Easter eggs. Discovery really was about discovery. And when I finally connected to the Web, I wanted to do this together with other people and compete with them in skills I thought I had developed by playing single. If I started online right away, I'd have been hopeless - all I knew of combat were the instructions you get when you start the SP campaign. If I didn't play SP for a couple months before going online, I'd have likely been too confused to even start. Yet if I already know where every jumphole was and how strong every ship was, I wouldn't have started playing at all, because discovery was the primary motivation.

Obviously Discovery can't be about discovery any more. There's only this much to discover and some people can do it all in a week, yet we've got 10 year long players here (hello!). Plus, even if that's not the case, every piece of info is readily available - we've got the online nav map, FLCompanion and other useful tools.

Discovery might want to upgrade itself, as everything is already discovered. It might be good to spend some brains developing the game in the direction of SP. Reshape it into an entirely new concept.

What would it be about? I don't know, not yet. I'm just brainstorming. Maybe I'll be back with an idea in a week. but that isn't guaranteed. Ideas don't come as planned, they are more like the Spanish Inquisition. Perhaps it won't even be me. But I do think that we need an idea, though instead of as fast as possible, as good one as possible.

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