Goodbye Disco

[Kherty]

Why everyone is leaving? =/

It is just as sad as it is: the server is in its last stage; just like each product in the market has a life expectancy, eventually it reaches this date. Discovery is like the NASA's satellites sent for projects. They usually have a planned date of like five years, but are extended to twenty, or more.

This is how I see Discovery. Discovery is like the Voyager probes; slowly, the components are failing. Here, it is the remaining "good" players slowly leaving, and realizing it is indeed, the end. And it is exacerbated by a lot of factors, including a questionable "devleadership". It's really sad to talk it about this that way, especially when you grew up alongside Discovery like I did, starting with my brother playing, and me taking up his mantle.

Now the only real reason I'm still here is because I feel I have duties to fulfill toward the playerbase, mainly in Gallia as I am the head of GalGov currently, and the loads of factions I'm part of its HC. I have too many things in my plate, and I pledged to help as much as I could. Once I will fulfill these duties, or feel I have finished them, it will also be time for me to depart and take my leave, or at least end this endless nightmarish maze I've put myself in naively.

It is simply too taxing on my mental health and well-being. I dream of just being able to play without having expectations or goals to fulfill, and be a simple Freelancer™ once again.

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Preach, Brother!

Completely serious Question.
How much $$$ would it take to Buy out Disco from the Existing Dev Team?

Glad you've like what I said!

How much would it takes? About zero dollars if you manage to do what @Laz said, and remake the launcher's capable of seeing the other servers (which is honestly sad to see, it's like an forcefully imposed pseudo-monopoly), make your own, and propose a server with a better management. It wouldn't be too difficult to do, as the real way of "competing" would simply be unbloated in terms of head devs drama and a future patch that isn't absolutely disappointing, and actually have the Administrators oversee the developers.

Or if you want to host it on a VPS, 10 dollars or more, I recall the cost to run the server back in its heydays was around 55$/mo., for a simple one with like 4GB of RAM, I don't know. But it would be a lot more flexible, and for the forum; just don't backup the entirety of the forum every single day. A lot of possibilities. Heh, maybe it turns out I studied and have a college degree to be an System Administrator not for nothing, I can actually answer these questions... Heh.

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