(04-10-2022, 12:25 AM)Megaera Wrote: Instead of writing essays on what needs to change every time, you can also just log in and play the game, interact with people and keep your faction alive.
To do what though? No factions can really have active plans to do anything worth working towards at any given time. There are no factions planning to try to capture other faction's bases, moons or planets (routes/systems). No factions planning to try to capture a jump gate from goverment control, etc. Therefore there is little 'necessity' generated for other smaller factions and trades to survive off of. Nothing can develop freely or naturally. I mean, come on, that obviously doesn't cut it for most players except for a once a week thing. We need more than 'just log' for the place to really function.
At any given time, factions could be working towards their next goal, and there could be a lot more stuff to do here 24/7 again. I suggested using Scidata to make moves, but it would also work with things like Ores. For example, instead of needing 3000 units to earn a siege event of a planet/moon, it could be 500 000 units of some kind of industrial grade ore, like Iridium, Nobium, Molybendum, etc. Then any factions wanting to use their moves, would need to get mining, or get paying other mining factions to mine it. Think of what that would do for the mining industry here, and therefore the security aspect (Freelancers?) to help out. It would create a slow moving, long term constant consumption to keep changes ongoing. Every faction wanting to maintain the option to siege or counter siege after being attacked already, would be working to keep their stocks of ores or scidata up to keep their options open. That means on top of a bump in mining and trade, there would be all sorts of other money making trade stimulated for those big factions to pay for their needs. All the while people could happily RP their roles along the way, making deals, contracts and treaties as needed.
Does that sound so bad? After 6 months we might be back in a good place and have a good routine going on, and a happily busy playerbase.
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