Discovery "RP" 24/7

[Wesker]

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Please do I'm not kidding

I don't think it's too late for discovery to recoil out of this. I think people need to stop being butthurt and bitter about the fact that this is just "the way it is".

Probably at the height of my time in the RHA when we were coming off our sieging rampage, I noticed that my characters were looked at differently. Some of the big characters now are hardly seen ingame, little steps would be to encourage people to fly their characters. Discovery is a game and one big story, characters are important to a story. As the story progresses, the characters gain notoriety and seniority in the game, it makes it interesting if people invest in real characters. Each one could have a cool sort of story to it rather than puking up characters that already have their entire purpose and past written out.

Looking at tackling larger issues though, at that time both myself and others were obsessed with story development. Even now in many factions I see people taking to that stupid DWG discord channel to consult on behalf of their faction. The obsession with story has to end, consultation with players from the story teams needs to be at the very least - dialed back significantly. The reason you play, the reason you make a faction, the reason you log in should be to play the game. That means different things for different people, but it's still a step in the right direction.

I think something that ties in a good example of both cases being put into play is the current active GC- faction. I hear a lot of people giving them criticism for being a "circlejerk" or "why are GC- going to iota?" who cares? A lot of them are new, they may not be the "best" players but they do their own thing and stick to their own narrative. I don't see them obsessing over story in their chat all the time. I see them all in vc flying around and interacting together and with others. THIS is how it should be for all factions, even our senior ones. From the characters played to the players themselves. The roleplay "talent" or "knowledge" ill say comes with time. A lot of people personify themselves into characters, I know I did. But over time I think people that care about their characters start to give them their own personality etc etc.

I don't think it's realistic to make the demands of everyone being on top of their game, that every character will be a "main" or "detailed" one. But I would like to see more real characters entering the game in general, and a larger investment into those characters.

Maybe my points sound like a bunch of gibberish but this is my opinion. Above all, I don't think discovery is too far gone. It took a lot of hits with drama and leadership changes over the years. But it's slowly starting to take steps back in the right direction, more threads like this, and more talks like this will help it heal I think.