Social Survey: Why people are loosing interest to Discovery?

[Akura]

The tech compatibility powerplant rules absolutely killed Discovery for me. It's the antithesis of good RP game design. At best it's a lazy system to save the Admins as whole bunch of work, and at worst it's absolutely crippling to original and creative roleplaying. This was the final straw that soured Discovery and pushed me away for good, it's the single biggest reason why I won't return.

All of my main characters were instantly crippled by the introduction of that stupid feature, I was put in a very difficult position of having to choose between roleplaying my characters honest to who and what they were, and being any good in PvP.

Now PvP is not everything, but basically being forced with a lose-lose situtation where the two aspects of enjoyable gameplay are directly at odds with each other sucks. I had a Mercenary character with perfectly legal and faction approved tech but I was stuck at 75% compatibility? I shouldn't have to put in an SRP request (which is another horrible system) to be able to actually use this character. This is a Mercenary with former service in that faction, and actively worked as a spy for them, and I was forced to drop guns and ships because the Merc ID didn't allow full compatibility, rendering the character useless for PvP. A Merc who is crippled in PvP because of a lazy and shortsighted system is an absolutely useless Merc.

Factions trading tech is an important part of diplomacy in Discovery, and this system absolutely crippled it. Heck, this system all but ruined non-faction characters by railroading them down civillian tech trees. Hello? This is a game named "Freelancer", why are we crapping all over Freelancers?

This is a poorly thought out and damaging system, that only serves as a bandage over Discovery's serious balance issues. In short, it's a system that solved some problems, but ended up creating much, much worse problems in return.

This system actively seeks to seperate RP and PvP into two different groups, and puts them at odds with each other. Completely unnecessary.