Igiss Q&A Thread

[Igiss]

Thanks for the great questions! I'll answer everything, gradually. So if I haven't got to yours I will later. (I will combine some answers into one though, like the ones about which factions I enjoyed playing for.)

If you were to dive back in Discovery Freelancer, what faction would you play? And another question, what faction you never played?

I'll try to answer this and other faction-related questions here. (Just read the page on Discovery factions here, the new ones are pretty interesting.)

I mostly loved RPing for outlaw and neutral factions. Lane Hackers, Outcasts, Mollys and Junkers have been, in a way, my favourite. I liked the aesthetics of pirate hideouts in asteroid fields in general. Liberty Rogues were fun too, by the way... simple and honest guys, if you ask me. No complicated agenda which other rogues hide behind.

I didn't play for Kusari or Rheinland factions much because I found Kusari and Rheinland spaces less interesting, visually and NPC-wise, then other spaces. Not sure if it affected Discovery priorities in any way, but I probably focused on them less than on other areas...

I loved independent spaces of various sorts. Hispania systems in particular. Lots of hidden mysteries to discover. But I mostly preferred Outcasts over Corsairs, partially because of their cool ship designs.

I also rarely played for police or military factions. Rarely played for corporations, and trading has not usually been a priority for me, other than save some money on a few long routes to buy a better ship.

Where did the idea for disco come from? Where did the inspiration come from?
And I read that you went to university for law and got your barrister's degree.
Why didn't you ever work as a lawyer?

The idea of Discovery appeared when I saw what modders could do with it, and saw some modding tutorials. I thought that it would be great to make a mod that I would enjoy playing myself. Perhaps other people would like that too. There was this IlluminatingDarkness community too, which had some Freelancer presence, though it's hard for me to remember how extensive it was at that point.

As for law: I didn't get a barrister degree (not a thing in Russia anyways), I was specializing in international public law. I was an unexperienced nerdy guy with no skills or wit to communicate with people in a way necessary to secure any descent job. And had few friends back then, in this sphere, if any. I was not very keen to work in government institutions (which turned out to be a good thing, given where Russia is headed now), so I just went into gaming.

I had some regrets because I could've been useful for things like defending political protestors in courts, but it was no chance of coming back at that point.

last but not least

how many eggs do you eat every day

I hate eggs.