Sorry, how is balancing the discovery and bringing more people to corporations, especially new people a bad thing?
In corporation they have structure and chance of actually not get banned after first month of play, when they engage someone without notification or something simmilar. they can learn the rp, they can learn how to behave, they can learn how to pirate in right way because they'll see the wrong ways and they can learn many more things.
opening the corporations brings people together and offers some better and major interaction. Sure, it benefits me in the process, but what's so unfair there? It benefits every other corporation member as well.
So far an independent trader offers what to the discovery other than his personal profit and being the target for most hardcore pirates that will decide to pirate him even tho he's neutral.
Corporations interact with each others, are more prone to hire mercenaries, and that actually means bringing more people into "a story" and by doing that offering a higher quality of roleplay.
Yes, things can be unfair and great at the same time. It's called challenge and I respond to it. Thats why I hope to attract more people to corporations, and thats why I cashed out most of my income i earned here to fund people who actually agree to take the risk. Some members already accepted that, like Roly, Alvin, Ziggeris and thats just the people agreed to create Kishiro with me. Others that join later will surely be there creating new things for Discovery while having fun.
Point of the internet game like this, where developers have gave up is to have it as an sandbox. See what you can, expand where you can and make sure it's a better place, more fun and more challenging. So far it's pretty challenging for me, since I seem to be tacking some issues others aren't.
If you disagree, make a threat about points you disagree with me, so I can point out where you're wrong, do not twist my words around because that doesn't work on me. Offer something constructive or offer an alternative that would work better than my suggestions.
"leave things alone" isn't a suggestion, because things can always be better.
@ ackarion: Your arguments are great, and you are right. Repeating some routes over and over tends to get boring, but have you ever done it in convoy? It tends to be much more fun. Yes, interaction with alot of nations certainly sounds like something an independent trader would do and could do, and more important - should do. So what is your point on corporations limiting some exclusive resources to their own members and members of other corps that they allowed to trade it?
basically making it a contraband for others, enforced by some entity.
It gives you a right to ship it ofcourse, but you just have an extra risk while doing it.