Deterrence [DTR] - Feedback

[Darius]

You do realize that just because people join DTR, they don't automatically stop logging anything else? If people want to join DTR and hang out with active people - something they don't even need to do officially, since, you know, indies exist - they will do that. It's almost as if the faction does something right that other factions could do, too.

That's exactly the issue. The vast majority of DTR locks itself inside the faction and refuses to play anything else, instead choosing to make up conspiracies against whoever they think is best.

In regards to the other comment(s) by Undertone. I left DTR because I also couldn't stand the absolutely nightmarish echo chamber that it turned into, among other reasons, two of which you did list. As you're well aware, I did that quite a long while ago and, when I "returned" to disco proper (I had a pretty big break till last month cause of IRL issues), I joined the Core to help them get some extra activity.

Concerning the Xi siege, that was done for just several fights (I've even told Vladimir of this when he asked me personally), but apparently that's not been communicated. I'm not interested in joining every faction discord to catch up on what everyone is doing, so it is not our fault that DTR had an event that same week.

Now to get back again to the recruitment dilemma. On one hand, yes, I could use it. It's doable by everyone which is exactly why it's awful and despised. On the other hand, all groups that do this end up filled to the brim with indies (and while that's not a bad thing) that have 0 purpose, just exist around, and play JUST that one group. I could go on for hours and list you just the [GN], [RM] and DTR people that are that way. They don't contribute anything. They are just dead weight to the server and that's hurting it tremendously. People that could instead be allowed to discover the mod on its own instead get hooked up almost instantly into RM/Corsairs, have fun for a week, and then they drop out because they don't have any idea that the game world exists beyond Omicron Xi and Munich.

I know it's a hard fact to swallow. But it's for the better that you sooner understand this mod cannot thrive on using this tribal attitude in recruitment. Log in-game, do roleplay, do fights, be active, and people will join you both as indies and as OF members. I've done this with the Core, I've done this with the BAF. It's an approach vastly more rewarding to the server.

As for the consequences of not following the above, I've talked to you many times in private about this. Eventually DTR too is going to lose most of its players. Eventually DTR too will end up without new people to recruit. Do us all a favor and learn that when that day comes, you'd be better off without having everyone just in your faction. At the current rate, though I despise just parroting what the others say, you are heading well for the "well, who do I log against?" situation in-game.

Do as you please, but keep my words in mind.