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[Caffeine]

I think this is a clever idea, but it's arguably way outside of the scope of what kind of game Discovery is. Discovery has always branded itself as a community-driven, light-roleplay environment for Freelancer, not a simulator-kind of experience, most people that come to Discovery often come for Freelancer and they stick around because of the RP flavor, not because they seek a Freelancer-themed in-depth simulator.

You could in fact test this feature in Discovery; if you were to implement this but make it opt-in, do you think it'd receive a broad adoption by this community?

I've thought about the concept of a deep and complex spacesim on top of Freelancer to make it more similar to Star Citizen (with obvious technical limitations in mind, as I can't think of how could multiple players control a single capital ship, which is how Star Citizen works), but it should be its own whole beast aside of Discovery, and looking to appeal to its own kind of audience.


All in all I think people is piling too hard on this, this is definitely not a bad idea, but it's not the kind of experience Discovery is going after.