I see alot of players who must spend hours writing up novals on these forums, but are often useless in-game roleplaywise..
It's not that I don't admire the creativity or commitment of the authors of these pieces, but it's more along the lines that I'm here to play a game, not sit on a forum for hours at a time reading about it. Some stories update so often that you'd have to read them everyday or every few days, and these stories are exactly that generally - stories, because they didn't actually happen within the roleplaying atmosphere of the server and so players couldn't effect the storyline at any point.
It'd be nice if, instead of writing a forum post to get permission to fly a ship or whatever else, players began to actually do these things In Character while playing on the Discovery RP server. This would make things alot more interesting, and it'd serve to liven up the server abit aswell. You could always roleplay hijacking a capitolship or something along those lines, and you could also do character development with each action you take in-game - characters are intended to be people and as such are subject to change and so on. Getting defeated in battle should effect the personality you're portraying and character development itself should actually be "existent."
It'd be very possible to do all these things, but unfortunately it'd likely require aggressive ADMIN enforcement and alot of work from the playerbase itself. Despite those problems though, considering what Freelancer is and was, the Discovery crew has done a fine job at lining things up for such things seamlessly.:)
