What is keeping you from playing?

[Haste]

Kind of worried this thread is going to be a long, repeating list of the main reason I don't play much personally: the low playercount. I enjoyed Discovery most when I could log in an unlawful, pick a lane and pirate a transport every few minutes. It wasn't fun because of the transports - it was fun because I knew there were half a dozen or more lawfuls online looking for me sooner rather than later. Similarly, you could log in a police character and just patrol, and you'd either bump into unlawfuls naturally or get PMs from "traders in distress".

This doesn't work nowadays. You have to - in order to get a decent amount of interaction for your "time investment" - refresh the heck out of the player list and actively seek out clusters of players. This just isn't anywhere near as fun for me (not to mention that most of the time even doing that might not get you any meaningful gameplay) so I end up not bothering.

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