Return new players to Manhattan, Not Pennslyvania

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That was not a problem for years and now it suddenly is? Seems like wasted effort when developers have a bunch of other, frankly more important matters to attend to.

It could be said that starting players in an unknown area, has affected the population of the mod for many years. I'm simply just bringing it to the attention of this forum today.

I believe dev time for potentially such an important shift is justified. Population is key.

To expand further, I stopped playing Discovery many years ago. Maybe 5. I did the vanilla campaign some months ago for the first time in maybe 8 years.

I downloaded the mod today, from my own YouTube tutorial instructions, and logged on. Undocked Pennsylvania and instantly realised it is different. What I felt? Unfamiliarity. Questioning whether I have time to try and learn everything again.

I logged off and made this post. That sequence of events is likely for a majority of old Freelancer players and Veterans.

My question is simple, why get in the way of what people expect? They know Manhattan, we used to start in Manhattan, why keep Pennsylvania with now population not being what it once was.