What is keeping you from playing?

[TheDoctorXI]

I do actively still log but from my experience I have a few potential - and a few likely reasons that others may relate to. A few of which I have seen dating back for at least a decade and I don't think is ever going to change, not at least at the player or group level; certainly where mentality is concerned. I'm of the mentality that I will always love playing in Disco, that will likely never change and Freelancer in general holds a special place from my younger years. Now, this being said, I am me and few will likely share the blinding optimism that I hold, nor the ability of brushing things off. People hold grudges, people get annoying, silly stuff happens in Disco.

On to PVP (this ought to get some backlash): There are many great PVP'ers of Discovery, I mean, the game is damn old but that's part of the charm. There is, without a shadow of a doubt, a skill disparity between a select few and the rest of the community. That's to be expected and that is okay - not a bother at all. Factions come and go, people come and go. I've read threads in the forums where, <insert PVP faction here>, will log and basically wipe a group out of the game for what is now, an hour. Okay, you're up against better players, it's kind of expected that you weren't ever going to win. Fine - GF. When that happens, over and over and over again, sure - might be fun for the PVP faction, every single time, but how fun do they really think it is for the opposing group? Or rag-tag selection of indies that have to try and fight you? It's not. It really isn't. You log a specific character, only to have a group of <insert said faction> spot you on the player list and them come find you. It does happen, more so than even I have counted since returning. My point is, PVP, while fun, isn't the focus. Sure, it's an RP server and there are, of course, legitimate reasons to engage players, shoot each other up and all that, but if you're forever on the losing side, then you're very rapidly going to lose interest in logging - at least for that specific character or faction. I have voiced this to people and basically had the old, "Just practice in Conn for a few hours a day, 7 days a week and for a few months - then you'll be as good". Well, I'm sure everyone has that kind of time between jobs, family, real life or all of the above. Being good, great or excellent at a game is fine - but for those having to fight against you, it's like smashing your head against a stone wall. Maybe join the opposing faction? Share the skill set out, even the fight up a bit? I know there are other ways of making fights fair, but generally that's not accepted or even considered, because by the time you're trying to arrange just that - it's /1 /2 "pew pew mu'f'kers".

I really do believe PVP is killing off the numbers and when we get a big patch like this cruiser re-work, which personally, I think was bloody outstanding! (Nicely done and thanks) which will push the numbers up a bit and it has. I think community attitude also has a huge play in the numbers to, but you can't change peoples nature and they likely won't either.

There are a great many other things I could and would like to mention, but this just touching on my PVP thoughts, has gone on long enough.

My two pence and musings.

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