Discovery "RP" 24/7

[Binski]

I believe RP should be done at a lower level within a faction. Player-governments as a concept should be abolished and story team should be the sole controlling aspect of a faction's administrative direction. In most other RP environments, you dont see a player-group controlling the whole Liberty for example.

Oh its the complete opposite. The player goverments are also what added additional depth to the game, and for the other players more so than those working it. Also this would add much more responsibility to the admins plate.

Story moves too slow, especially in this age when to keep the game alive we need to keep the ball rolling more than before. Its the lockdown of a team dominated story that is like a tight leash that prevents major levels of involvement. No one cares when story is propelled here anymore, wars are put on to advance a plot to shift things around for the dev team or they are applied at random for something to try to generate activity (that dies fast without reasons and only relying on kill counts to determine outcomes).

Either way, it should be obvious at this point that keeping player involvement in story physically locked out is what limited this place and player committment. Instead of total story dictation, lets have more player driven story impacts, and then regardless of whether we are winning or losing our battles, they are real and are causes to play. People will log and fight for a cause. During the battles of Leeds and New London, we had like 120ish people online. Where are all of these players the rest of the time?

A cause is what vets need to play, a real reason. Something to put all that skill and experience towards. Again, we either embrace more risk or keep the place lobotomized to avoid oorp fighting, or the inconvenience of losing control of a pixel empire to actual players doing actual work to build their own. Too much dependence/dominance of pre written develpments (and the individuals in charge of that) is why this place is well preserved...so well its frozen beyond practical gameplay.