Official Activity Q4 2025

[Egon Bigmemes]

I go on record for repeatedly praising Official Faction Quarterly Reports and advocate for a return of them. A simple template. Faction leaders take a few moments of their time to list what their faction did, list what forum comms got sent, what stories got published, what notable interaction have been had in the game.

unless youre a pob empire builder or an AFK NPC farmer maintaining a faction has become more and more of a chore as people refuse to interact more and more. traders are usually of the power variety, and usually involved in supplying a POB and do NOT want anything to do with your pirate or even your lawful, as you either directly slow down their profit/POB upgrade/POB equipment because you dared to interact with/pirate them, or indirectly wasting their time because theyre going to wait for you to go off scanners so you dont find their pob.
for those who slap a tag on/already have an official trader, this would be simple, sure. for literally anyone else, particularly pvp oriented factions, this just becomes existential dread, as your already limited interaction prospects are now being used to judge if your faction is worthy of existing or not.

We may also need to find a solution to the playerlist controversy, to the glorification of blue messages popping up in the center of the screen

im not gonna sugar coat it

to the very low standards for bounty hunting

i'd agree with this but on the other hand, any more standards would make it functionally impossible to bounty hunt.

as well as the ridiculousness of inherited official player factions

besides some trading/zoner factions are there any inherited factions left? everyones of old has pretty much gone unOF at this point. or become irrelevant.

biggest agree, however.

The handling of battleships, in my personal opinion, has never been this un-fun before, and knowing it was not un-fun before 5.0 really doesn't motivate me to log.

caps being a knockoff world of warships with zero of the mechanics, fun, or firepower but with an added gimmick (turn off your shields/fly slower/use your useless and intrusive rear facing turret!) in the name of making caps less likely to give you carpal tunnel from the keyboard gymnastics you had to do (and actually just exasperating it to the point you lose 100% of the time if you dont partake) had to of been the funniest (worst) design choice i've seen.