Deleting systems poll UPDATE

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i really feel like people are missing the whole thing being that these systems are being deleted to make way for new ones, if markam is to be believed. which means instead of just blessing the existing systems that people want to keep with your golden touch, youre just going to delete them and make new ones no one will be invested in, just like Nu.

whats the point?
why make new ones that may or may not be popular (unless you force them to exist between current system routes, making them popular by the fact you HAVE to fly through them) when you can fix whats already in the game?

I feel like most things that have to be said have already been said, so I'll refrain from going into too much detail for now, but I'll chime in here: I think we shouldn't be adding (any relevant number of) systems after culling what we believe to be the most unnecessary systems. I think we should have a manageable, somewhat "compact" core game universe that allows organic, "chance" based interaction to occur with any kind of regularity.

I think we would all agree that if the player list were to be hidden, both on the forums and in-game, interactions would be exceptionally rare. Maybe New York would have something going on sometimes, and maybe 5ks would bump into now-unknown pirates a little bit more frequently, but players would be mostly playing on their own unless they organized groups and encounters outside of the game. I don't think that's what we want. This game is best when there are other players to co-operate with, chat to, or fight. Trading is more interesting when piracy is a real threat, or when you see the occasional other trader or lawful ship you can greet and have a chat with. Flying a lawful ship is more interesting when pirates are successfully pirating and require "action". And so on, and so forth.

Upping our player count is one way to achieve this, but simply making the game a little bit more reasonably sized is another way. I think we should be doing both of these things to the best of our ability.

I have many more thoughts on this but I'll have to think about how to best put it into words first.

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