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Get a group of people together, then play the game.

Or, play by yourself and take it as it comes.

The key part here is to play the game.

It really is that simple.

While this statement is true, it's only true for newish and medium-timepart members.

As someone who is here for a good amount of time (same as you), the issue becomes, what am I even supposed to do? I roleplayed, I Pve'ed, I PvP'ed etc. I did everything the game/mod has to offer. At some point, the only thing that this mod provides, is the RP. And sadly the quality dropped significantly. (Sure, as someone who did minimal RP for a while just to get his PvP, I might have been part of the problem.) The forum RP is still good, you have your meme and low quality posts from time to time, but overall the forum RP is still high. The ingame RP on the other hand is utterly trash.

Thank you for the argument.

As someone who has 'beat the game', as it were, I'm still reaping high quality roleplay, and it's not from people who are seeking me out, or are a component of what we might pathologize as my "bubble" (the group of people that reinforce my opinions because I encounter them regularly).

I'm getting literate, engrossing ingame roleplay from random encounters. At the same time, RP from ESL people, who are uncomfortable with their characters, or new to the universe, or the very idea of "roleplay", still has noticeable merits. Not everyone needs to be eloquent to compound someone's sense of immersion in the world.

Really, I rarely feel like I've done everything Discovery has to offer for me. I have not played, or role-played, the perspective of every single faction on offer, or even a fraction of them. I've barely played as anything in Bretonia. There's a smorgasbord of untouched content out there; the platter hasn't thinned because I've been eating from it for over a decade.

Look, I have two unique ships, five SRPs - I've beat what some people might call "the endgame" from a personal "pixel power" perspective. Yet I logged back in after a bunch of years away from Disco, and I found myself a wide-eyed noob again - barely able to fly, unaware of the current roleplay developments, intrigued by the new shape of the community...

It's not about endgame content because there is no endgame. Universe of Possibility might be a long-obsolete marketing line conjured up by Digital Anvil, but for some of us it does ring true. That's the nature of sandbox roleplay.


So, ultimately, the question: "what am I even supposed to do" is a question only you can answer.

For me, the answer to "what am I even supposed to do", is to play Discovery, and interact with the players, the roleplay, and the gameplay, as and when I run into it. I'm having a good time. Your own mileage may vary.


It's a bit nostalgic; I remember back in even 2013 there people who were posting in forum threads just like this one, about how the community was broken then, and how the old days were long behind them.

This argument will always remain credible, because it's natural to feel a good time has come and gone. That's the human experience. But the end and start of a journey is always deeply personal, and, without analytics software, we can't really prove this zeitgeist stuff one way or the other.

But there are still the ingredients for a good time latent within the Discovery community. The only advice I can give is to try roleplaying in a completely different part of Sirius, doing a form of activity you'd never previously contemplated.

Or, failing that, taking a break. Time away can restore the magic.

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