(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.
Fair enough. Well can someone in the staff actually do something regarding advertising while people actually still remember what freelancer is?
And lol at the fear of change in this place.
I don't understand why we insist on going the boring ass sterile pre-determined outcome route.
EVE isn't suffering from this problem and I'm pretty sure it's almost as old and I know it's a lot less fun to play.
There was an idea recently to send an email newsletter to all the previously registered emails from this forum, with information about new changes and so on in the mod. Technically it's a lot more playable now than in the past, and it would remind those players that used to play here that it's still kicking. Apparently a guy in a different community tried something similar for an old-ish game and it raised activity a lot, because people didn't even remember that it's still a thing. So the staff seem to be working in that direction with the email thing, and then something ilke ads/promos can be considered in the future.
