What is keeping you from playing?

[Erremnart]

I love Freelancer (that's why I am still coming back) and especially RP aspect in it. That keeps me engaged and willing to try. I also like the work of the devs in their quest to make Disco more enjoyable mechanics wise and I think that they did a great job given our options.

So, what's the problem you may ask if everything looks nice and dandy? The answer is lack of interesting encounters for me. I am a large fan (or nerd) of RP, I've run a lot of tabletop RPG games, I have played other MMOs on RP server, etc; and I like to develop my characters.

If I can predict that 90% of my ingame encounters will be '/1 /2 /shoot', I can play it only for a limited time before I get bored of the same things over and over again. But that's just my point of view and I completely understand that other people are okay with that and all power to them to keep this interesting project running.

The main issue for me is general lack of story arc. It feels that most, if not all, factions just exist in here and are bound to their territory and established lore. It feels static and meaningless. It feels like wasted opportunity given the fact how violent FL universe is and how many option story-wise it offers - Economy crashes, stock market crashes, rising tensions between Houses, diplomatic and military incidents, accusations over the media, ultimatums and similar things can be done for unlawfuls. They are mostly ruthless criminals after all and such environment is rarely static. No political entity is seizing initiative to further their geopolitical goals (or astropolitical goals?).

If such things already happen in game, they are barely visible for casual observer. The goal of any storytellers, no matter the RPG form, is to make environment and story interesting for player characters first and foremost. Given the fact how most of the Freelancer PvP servers died already - I believe that Discovery's main focus should be good and compelling story to keep players engaged, backed by balanced and fun gameplay.