Official Activity Q4 2025

[Eternal.Journey]

Staff don't get the same luxuries as the players for playing the game. They got staff stuff to do, reports to go through, paperwork to file, changes to consider and vote upon. You get the idea. They don't have nearly as much time to play the game, what with their real lives too. We spend our time playing the game in our free time, they spend it trying to figure out what to do with it in terms of the inner workings, or some other technical difficulty that needs resolving.

Activity is what you make it. It's easy enough to spark up, with the heart to do so and with good friends behind you that can also offer their time to do so too. All's you need to do is go "Hey guys, would you like to log with me, we can go do some stuff. Don't matter what, we can just chill." Seeing OFs die is depressing, but it's as people have already said. OF status only really matters for a few factions, where there's an actual benefit for the OF itself.

I find that just giving people a reason to exist within the game is enough to creating activity within the game. Being there when a friend wants some RP company, organising a large gathering for a convoy, organising with allies and enemies alike (In-game, of course) to create fun situations for all involved. We can all be the miniature "Roleplay Event" team that we desired to see in staff and we don't need to be staff to do so. You just need to muster up the courage to go to your buddies and work things out.

Lately I've wondered why that's difficult these days. And there's of course some valid points about dissent over balance changes, lack of roleplay stuff, etc etc etc. The list is longer than it needs to be. Be the change you want to see in the game, and soon enough you might find that your change sparked the motivation of others to do the same. Maybe you'll achieve nothing, maybe only one person per day more logs in for awhile then returns the list to the same faces throughout the day. At the end of the day, you'll never know if you'll change the course of Discovery if you sit idly by and preach the changes you want to see, while never acting yourself.

Waiting for the change in player count makes you just as much at fault for the problem as the people you blame, if not more.

You wanna rekindle a spark in the game? Try something new, or something old that you miss. Restart an old project that you have laying around in storage somewhere, prowl around systems and see if people do anything to meet you. If no one does, and it felt depressing, do something else, or try a different approach. It really is as simple as putting in the effort. People might mostly be selfish, but that's no reason to stop trying.

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