Official Activity Q4 2025

[Emperor Tekagi]

First of all,

It's sad to see another bunch of great factions slowly dwindle away, but that's how the times are.
The reasons for Discovery's decline are many great factors and this decline started no less than 10 years ago and repeatedly showed "impact points" when suddenly larger numbers of people wound up and quit at once. We clearly have experienced another such point when the raid log culture went off and pushed away some of the remaining RP bastions in favor of quick pew-pews. Balance reasons, staff decisions and all this have always been factors, albeit more minor ones than player/player group behaviour when it comes to "what drives people to play or not". A few people quit over balance, yes, or play less but the overall grand issue is too complex to narrow it down to "just this, just that", the same goes for the raid logs. They are just the current vocal point brought up by most people, which paired with the others rapidly accelerates the decline as of late. Discovery players liking to double down on an issue and citing it as their perfect excuse to "not bother trying" just increases the decline as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The team is working on ideas to increase gameplay diversity but you can only do so much after investing really a lot, a loooot of time for the past few years, before needing a prolonged break. So anyone with the will and time to see Discovery recover should just reach out to them and see where they could help, it's not that hard.

The mythical creature of OF Rework should have happened years back and we either hope it will arrive one day or we figure out alternatives: Abolish the OF system. PoB Core 5 is now a real SRP. Explain people how everything else can already be Player Request submitted. Hand out Player Govs to people who actually know lore and have the ability+time to guide meaningful lore development alongside our beloved British Badger.

Oh and sorry to Luke for barging into the thread like this. I just couldn't resist commenting for once.