(08-02-2021, 08:18 PM)Bootsiuv Wrote: I don't log because the server pop is down by something like 80% from the peak days. It's not going to work with this many people on such a huge friggin map guys.
I understand a lot of people don't like Blinksis ideas but he's not wrong.
If some drastic changes aren't taken this mod is dead. Period.
Even advertising won't do it at this point. People need some reason to be emotionally invested again. Back in the days there were enough randoms to just have fun from interactions alone. Disco could afford to have dooshy elitist rules and restrictions because refresh refresh refresh was a thing.
Now its a shadow of what it was and there is zero chance IMO it will recover if things stay the same.
Let ingame actions determine what happens. If the outcasts can manage to get enough gud players and activity to conquer sirius...friggin let them. It will be far better than the ghost town we have now. You can still have a bunch of rules regarding "has to be in rp, cant be dooshbags or tools," etc.
Give me a reason to give a **** again. Please.
Outside of the Freelancer community, literally nobody even knows that something like this exists. Ads would do a lot more to raise activity than basically any other suggestion at this point. Hell, there are some geniunely trash games that still have okay activity numbers and 90% of that is down to hype. Space sims/arcades are in a sad state, Disco definitely has a chance in that niche. Now whether or not those new players will stay here long enough is a different question.
