Discovery "RP" 24/7

[Binski]

Let's face it. People are just playing themselves in the various spaceship-shaped PvP-sticks they enjoy. If anyone goes out of their way to roleplay, they're most of the time doing it just because they're chasing some special snowflake SRP.

Well said.

Disco these days revolves around bringing Caps and other ships to system X in order to shoot target Y even though it doesn't really makes sense for people to do that. The only argument that I'm hearing is "it's fun" or "it's good for activity".

We have also held back here on a few things that make options limited when it comes to actions groups can take to keep propelling their story. To me, we're best setting up the place to be a space world where we can all do a bunch of activities that you need to RP to enhance and make sense of, and let the combinations form on their own. Meaning, just setting it up so that people could build bases and destroy them has generated a huge amount of RP, both in game and out. And I'm the one pushing for using NPC bases for that more than POB's just by adding a way to make them legit targets.

What we lack on the server (besides population) is activity with purpose, combined with a more detailed way for players to propel story with gameplay. Giving people a reason to be online is the best way to generate in-game rp.

Instead of the place being dead, there should be factions trying to start their own little 'enclaves' all the time, by using POB's, and using a faction level system to try to shake the map up, and doing a variety of activities in between like supplying bases with AMMO as well as fuel, using repair ships to help repair besieged bases, and mining/missions/begging for scidata to help propel their faction's next move. Yet how can it go back to being like that if we are rejecting of going that route? Otherwise its like these are the retirement years, especially now that we're past the Gallic War. I think we need more [new] activities, to get more people, to get more rp.