Deleting systems poll UPDATE

[Egon Bigmemes]

I had questioned whether I should respond to this thread, as the thread has questionable motivations and abuses the trust placed in certain community members by leaking upcoming changes to the mod.

you can see my exact motivations in the original post (EDIT: PAGE 2) as i didnt cut out my request to you, which means everyone was able to see i originally wanted to keep the assets (or at least LSF assets) from virginia, so please dont strawman me. if you want to claim im being malicious towards the community, at least make sure i didnt make my intentions fucking public.

Before commenting on the veracity of the leak, what is more important is understanding how presenting the information in a partial, incomplete and inaccurate manner as the OP has is harmful for understanding the context of the changes and with what they accompany in the end product (the patch). At best the information is incomplete, at worst it is misleading and misrepresents what is being done.

there wouldnt have to be incomplete or inaccurate information if the dev team wasnt so secretive. there wouldnt have to be a need for this thread if you interacted with the community at large at all and the "moderation team" didnt ban "problem" members with opinions from the discord

I.e. by noting that there isn't a Bretonia system in the leaked list of no longer existing system list was either intentional to represent the information in a certain light, or shows how poorly the changes were understood. To note, Bretonia is not somehow exempt from what is being done and when the patch is actually in a presentable form and released this will be clear to see.

dont act like devtonia hasnt been the reoccuring and unsurprising butt of every joke because they get shocking recoveries, victories, and growths every patch

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So yes there is truth to the list, but as stated above, it is all presented with no context, and speaks little to the improvements being made to other systems, as well as hides the fact that both deleted and remaining systems are to be utilized in different ways that do not disrupt the core Story/gameplay environment.

as stated above, there cannot be context because no one on the development team wants to reveal anything. and getting a change reverted after it's patched is more painful than an amputation with no anesthetic

Also, for those that assume Discovery is on a downward trajectory towards fewer and fewer Systems, as if to say that Systems count is synonymous with content quantity, I can only say that with this next patch we will have handled the majority of reductions, and Systems development can finally focus on adding (hopefully) high quality systems in a non-disruptive manner that better plays to the Discovery title we have for the mod.

so youre removing systems so you can add more systems? why not just change existing systems to be your "higher quality"?

System removals have become a staple of my tenure as Systems lead, and it has been a slow grind of a System here or there being removed or merged, which has created an atmosphere of a slow death of the mod for some,

judging by the voter turnout, i'd say, oh, 60% of the current forum-going playerbase seems to have noticed this, and disagrees with the removal of systems.

ill now proceed to go read the other replies since you made this post

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i also like how lead devs make it pretty clear they have zero interest with the plebeians of the server too

sorry i didnt make this in the OP its on page 2, let me go fix it