Deleting systems poll UPDATE

[Leo]

I generally avoid posting OOC because of the toxic nature of some folks here, but I feel like I should throw in my two and a half cents here.

DWG was a good way to have input from various sources. It had a sort of corrective function when staff did stupid things. Now everyone has to just wait what staff throws at us this time. And even with community backlash, they wont revert stuff, because they tend to see themselves as somehow better than the average players. And in my honest opinion: When staff starts to get this narcissistic notion that they are above the community, they won't be able to create something that 'the average player' will enjoy, as they have lost touch with said community.

Everything here is exactly how I feel about the Dev team. Lock, stock, and barrel. I don't think they're necessarily bad people or anything, but they do seem to have a sense of entitlement above the average player for some reason. I know this probably lumps me in with the "undesirables" but so be it; I'm not going to keep quiet just because it might prevent me from testing a branch of the patch.

Fundamentally, removing excessive amounts of systems is removing the namesake of the mod: Discovery. I'm not against removing systems to further the story but removing almost 10 in one patch (regardless of the fact that it doesn't paint a full picture) is excessive. As an example, if you want to blow up Virginia and Nu because of a Hypergate accident (assumption), then that'd be interesting. Work with the Liberty players to craft some events around it. Like as an example, the Hypergate in one of the systems inexplicably and suddenly starts spouting out huge amounts of dark matter or something, make the system excessively dangerous with radioactive storms and mini singularities that make it difficult to fly through, have people trying to escape the system and make it an emergency evacuation event with the system suddenly becoming extremely dangerous. Nomads and everything attacking players attempting to save the populace of the system. It's just an example but that'd be awesome. Maybe even add to it by crafting a new system or making an older one (like Alberta or New Hampshire) accessible again because of some shenanigans with gravity and what not and have Liberty reach out inRP to explorers and researchers to journey there to find out what happened since access was lost. This prevents the loss of system and adds to the discovery and exploratory aspect of the mod.

I know the devs are working hard on the patch, and I realize that it takes a lot of time and effort to do so. However, being secretive about things isn't helping and is generating animosity towards the team. Give us some breadcrumbs to learn about what is happening, tease new changes and new systems (both star systems and actual systems related to gameplay). Craft events that revolve around the upcoming story changes that generate both activity and hype. Staying in your bubble isn't doing anyone any favors. Neither for you, or the community.

/soapbox

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