Shooting game.

[Corsair]

I have changed my opinion on Player vs Player (abbreviated PvP) combat since my last Flood thread. Now, I frakkin' love it (thanks in large part to Connecticut, the system I would previously not be caught dead in) and it's.. Nostalgic.

Remember .84, when people saw an LPI IFF'd Rheinland Battleship sitting at Manhattan.. And nobody cared about his IFF/ID? Now, we see that and try to find some new way to hurt the guy for.. Clicking pixels. I already made a rant thread over overzealous withholding of pixels from people, and in light of the SRP closure (which should have been a community choice, or at least received a forewarning)

Constant nerfing of moneymaking processes discourages me from trading at all, which, in turn, dwindles my bank account, which forces me to trade an excruciatingly boring route for a handful of millions. Remember when one run got you thirty million? You're lucky if you get that in an hour now.

ONE. HOUR. Let's list things some things you can do with one hour instead of trading.

Roleplaying.
Dueling
Bomb the crap out of a capital ship
Raid enemy territory
<strike>Ramble like a madman in New York</strike> Go to New York and gouge out your eyes.
Shoot off transport guns.
Work on forum stories
Rant on the forums
Troll the forums
Flood the forums.
Spam the forums.
Forum the forums.
Tell people to read the forums.
Examine the rules.
Q_Q where applicable

I would much rather be doing ANY of these things for one hour than spend it trading. You know what trading is? It's a grind. It's worse than a grind. Because our community size is so small. Freelancer wasn't built around trading. It was built around fighting, which we have turned into something new. A roleplay community. But with a community comes it's issues, which include, but are not limited to, people venting their frustration on us, people who can't comprehend how to function in a successful community, and finally, people who want to wreck a successful community.

People need to put aside their stupid little grudges and look at this as a big picture. We are a small community of a couple hundred people. If one part of our population decides to pack up and leave because things aren't going their way, we're all worse off. Eventually, all of our veterans will leave us, and then we would pretty much either fall apart or go through a nigh-anarchistic stage where we regroup ourselves and reform.

I say we simply change our thinking now, and avoid those problems altogether. Make the GAME less of a struggle. Less grind. Less rage. Less tight-minded restrictions. More openness (but within realistic bounds) with pixels. I don't want the good old days of LPI Battleships, I want a modern option that appeals to as many people as possible.

P.S, I don't want the "I just get on to fighter duel" folks to come in and troll. I want progress.
P.P.S We are the Discovery Gaming Community. Let's try some of that magic U-word.

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