Deleting systems poll UPDATE

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but simply making the game a little bit more reasonably sized is another way

Sometimes it is just better to not touch a running system

See, this is where I just disagree conceptually. I think Discovery's mistake in the past decade has mostly been to just kind of leave it be. To tinker as little as possible. Some of the biggest changes "Wow, repair ships!" are still a drop in the bucket. The last genuinely big changes to game systems (not to be confused with game star systems) - other than some recent balance reworks - were PoBs in.. 2011? I don't quite recall.

Discovery has been left to slowly whither away with a small injection of content and story here and there. And thus, it has slowly but steadily lost more and more players.

I think we should try a different approach, and as it would undoubtedly be a bit more radical, it's going to step on some toes. But a lot of the bad aspects of the game currently (the PoB plague and the awful state of siege mechanics for defenders and attackers alike) are a result of developers playing it safe and not having the balls to do the right thing, even if that may have upset some players.

As a small sidenote:
I think there is room for more systems than the aforementioned "compact" universe. But they should not always be accessible. The event-focused Uncharted "concept" is a bit of a step in that direction, but it never really went anywhere due to the manual labor aspect of events. Plus, honestly, the systems and associated event rewards were never particularly exciting. I definitely think we should have interesting sights to see and places to explore, but we do not require a colossal spider-web-shaped grid of 168 systems to have them.

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