It may be a *Free public server* to join, but that makes it even less valid to point and blame fingers at people. (not talking about your post, just mentioning this in passing.)
Those who pay money and spend their time and energy to keep this running are those who own this server. (This does not include donations)
That's part of the problem is that people do not seem to realise they have no *rights* on this server. If Igiss or Majkp stepped away, this *Free Public Server* would shut down.
Nothing in life is free. Someone has to pay, either in time, energy or money, or all three.
Nighthawk Wrote:And we already know that is not going to happen. Any change we make will benefit one group of people while harming another, there isn't a middle ground unfortunately.
(I'm not disagreeing with your comments, just bringing this out.) I think there is a middle ground, which is what I'm attempting to seek in asking these questions.
By the way, I don't have quick and easy answers. I'm going to be asking lots of questions because something is seriously wrong. That something has had it's time and needs to go away from Disco.
Monk Wrote:In my mind, the only way to handle this is to take adminship out of the spotlight and to increase punishments.
Perhaps. I'm not so convinced that *Iron will* and friendliness can't co-exist. I personally think that admins need to be connected to the community, and I think that the numbers of players or who the players are doesn't actually matter to good admining, and good servers. But again, it's not the admins fault that we have come to this point. This is something that we as a community are not doing.
So, I'll approach this from a different angle.
How do you want Disco to run?
How do you want Disco to work?
Everything other-pre-Freelancer IS about Pew Pew, but Disco is about RP.
Big differences there. I think that might be where we are seeing lots of the problems.
Freelancer is essentially a Pew Pew system.
It's a Pew Pew framework that we have put an RP system on.
So now we are seeing some bumps. Disco is still growing.
(Yes what we are seeing is growing pains. Nothing more.)
The numbers are going to continue growing.
So what is a good way to cope with the growing numbers?
How should Disco be set up to enable as many players to co-exist as possible?
I think an RP community can work with bigger numbers. It just takes some restructuring. (To quote Eppy.:))
Sovereign Wrote:Seek fun and you shall find it. Seek stuff to Q_Q about and you'll find that, too. I choose to have fun.
