Official Faction Activity Fourth Quarter 2021

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Decay is never a good sign. An arbitrary time requirement in the age of a dwindling population isn't really conducive to a healthy environment. We don't have 600 people all trying to get on to the server at the same time anymore. Not to mention that PvP oriented factions have less and less of that going for them, making it even harder. When you have to start logging transports on your military faction, it's not looking good.

All straight facts here. Look. These days the in game player count rarely breaches past 70, last I checked at least. That's a fraction of 600 like it used to be. I vaguely remember when there were so many players on that staff had an assassin faction they used to kill players in the game that were on for too long to free a spot for others. But even the name escapes me now, it's been so long. Not sure I even recall it correctly. My faction, the Rose Dragons, I would like to think as a somewhat pvp oriented faction seeing as it's unlawful revolutionary, yet all we've done these days is mostly fly around aimlessly and occasionally make long runs to keep our POBs alive. And my forum rp that's slowed because of my lack of motivation. But yeah, I log transports for hours at a time just to keep the bases alive. So does Slappy (Roach). For whatever reasons, KNF barely shows up anymore, our main target. They're happy to squeeze out the three days to barely pass the quarter check but won't come around when there's a bunch of unlawful activity. Then there's Samura, which does the same but rarely, if ever, even logs in Kusari at all, except to make runs to their POBs and actively avoid us. How is my faction meant to grow when they refuse to play? How about vice versa? How am I to get my players interested in playing my faction when there's nothing to shoot, barely anything to have quality rp with? It's not attractive to people when you entertain the idea of just flying around and shooting the crap together, at least, that's how it is with me for some reason. People usually have better to do than flying around just to clock hours.

What it is, is a neverending cycle of x player loses interest, stops playing as much, then y player loses interest as a result. On a large scale. And it needs answered on multiple fronts. That's what it boils down to. This community has shrunk so much that it cannot support the current requirements for activity checking, nor can it support the community in encouraging more activity. There is a dire need to ease the requirements on factions for activity and for amount of RP needed to 'progress' the faction and special RP, in my opinion.

Staff needs to find incentives to keep people playing and quickly. Can't afford to keep sitting on the fence forever. Something needs done now. It's not my position to say what can be done, all I can do is point out the holes in the ship. But what can they do when even they're losing motivation to keep going? When people get too busy irl to do anything, not to mention they're doing this for free. It's the stickiest situation I've ever seen a cult community in. And it's frustrating. As a person who loves the premise of this game and the possibilities it features, it drives me up the wall. I came back for fun but quickly I'm realizing why I left a few years ago to begin with.

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