Disco has been in slow but relatively constant decline since 2009, and now it's just fallen below the OF tracker threshold. Funny how some people start to worry only now.
(10-01-2021, 02:58 PM)St.Denis Wrote: There are, in my opinion, a lot of OF Leaders that just 'rest on their laurels' and do nothing further to promote their Factions.
I will leave people to work out what is the difference between the top active Factions and those that have failed/keep failing.
I remember saying something like that about official factions around 2013, with an emphasis on their exclusivity and hostility towards indies, and earned a lot of "nobody cares" memes, while the official admin position was "we have enough players so none of it matters".
For the same amount of time there have also been devs, mods, and admins who are in the best position to affect disco's entire population positively (noobs and vets, indies and officials) by improving the learning curve for new players with respect to rules, lore, and game mechanics, thereby doing noobs, vets willing to work with noobs, and vets annoyed by noobs' ignorance a favor, who could reduce ingame boredom by focusing activity through thoughtful system/economy layout and less counterproductive events, moderate player disputes (like... actually help resolve them instead of just censoring and banning people), and provide better guidelines and advice for indies and officials alike.
But said devs, mods, and admins don't even seem to understand the concept of any of the above and do absolutely nothing in those respects for years and years, apart from blocking other people's attempts to work on it, just asking players to keep carrying water to each other and smile while staff are the ones who could build water pipelines but don't, only to then blame the decline in population and decorum on anyone and anything but those who held the most power over it.
