Leo's Suggestions

[Leo]

Hello Discovery Community. Some of you may know me, others may not. I've been gone for some time, and would like to come to you with a few suggestions I've been thinking over the past few days. I've been lurking the forums reading with everything that's been going on lately, and I'm sure you know what it is. However, that is not the discussion at hand. These are suggestions of mine that I believe would significantly help the community. Forgive me if any of these have been posted before, I haven't found any of the things I'm going to suggest, but then again, most of the time my searching abilities are fail.

First, there needs to be a "buffer" space in-between the admins and the community. The admins are running this server FOR FREE. The modding community is creating content FOR FREE, in their spare time. It should not be only them doing all the work! We, the community should stand up and assist them in anyway we can. Many of the veterans (Zapp, Eppy (if he's still around), Xing, myself, and several others) already stand up and do a lot of the helping. There needs to be a faction, much like "The Angels" that are in-between the admins and the player-base. Hand picked by the admins to address the problems in-game and have admin powers to be able to fix the game server if it has issues. I.E. being able to reboot the server, bring the server back up if it crashes, ect. This keeps the bulk of the in-game issues OFF the admins and leaves them to be able to file the sanctions and what not.

Second, the biggest issue on everyone's mind these days are the capships. This is my personal opinion, but, capships need to be restricted to player factions ONLY, but within RP bounds. For example, Xenos shouldn't have anything bigger than a gunboat. An Xeno in a battleship would be out of place. Factions such as LPI, RM, KNF, Outcasts, Corsairs, Hessians, ect should have access to a battleship. The way to solve other people from getting them lay in scripts. "*.xml" files placed in the directory of Freelancer allows you to see certain things in the game. A mod I used to play on (Asgard) did this with faction ships. If you didn't have the XML in your root directory of Freelancer, you simply didn't see the ship for sale. The factions that apply for official status and fit the bill for being able to use battleships get an XML given to their leader to distribute out to those they deem responsible enough to pilot battleships. This hits two birds with one stone. Not only does it regulate the amount of battleships controlled in Discovery, but it also restricts them to certain factions, and certain people WITHIN said faction. This, however, relies on a trust system to the faction leaders.

That's all I can remember the moment. My memory is pretty bad, but I'm sure I'll remember the others soon, when I do I will post them up. Please, comment on what I have written, I'm curious to see what you, the community, thinks of my ideas. Don't hold back, pick them apart. You know what they say...two minds are better than one.

~Leo

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