I've said enough about the barge. Haste no longer seems interested in continuing pursuit to compromise barge owners. He's been proven wrong and found an out to go to his echo chamber (like he always does) to listen to his buddies on how good of a job his patch has done. Meanwhile, the excitement of the new patch is dwindling and numbers are returning to where they were pre-patch as people realize that this is now the same shit, different version number.
This is what happens when changes are made regardless of community input or feedback. Not a single barge owner was messaged to ask for input or ideas on the barge. Nope, scratch that. There was one that I actually did some testing for and provided feedback. He was chased away because he didn't drink the kool-aid.
Talking about original purposes, the original purpose of DiscoveryGC was just that - a gaming community of people who have a love and passion for Freelancer. This is no longer a community but just a few persons in charge pulling the strings that are ironically disconnected from most aspects of the game.
There are a few good devs and server staff lingering around, but it's only a matter of time...
It ain't about what you are capable of, it's about what you're willing to do.
