If you could change one thing about discovery what would it be?

[Aeqvinox]

I guess one reason I loathe the phantoms is due to their exclusiveness, not that I care to join, its just an arbitrary outlet for certain privileged players to kill uncontrollably.

You forgot to add: "with imbalanced ships and weapons" at the end of that sentence.

On topic now.

The one thing i would like to change about Disco, is the way it is being developed.

Instead of working on a big update, the dev team should finally after all these years work on an update which would fix all of the things that are not working properly in terms of game mechanics. An update which would fix all the imbalances we have now. An update which purpose would be to minimalize the server load, so that gameplay [imo one of the most important things] would be smoother and crispier.

I was pleasantly surprised when i first set my foot in here, that despite Disco being a big mod, the gameplay was rather unhindered by this. But after some time spent here i began to discover these little things that are a tradeoff for all those empty systems, npcs and whatnot. We'll have an update on our hands soon that implements what ? 20+ new systems ? WHAT FOR ?

Here's a short list of things that are borken or in need of tweaking, off the top of my head:
1. Fighter missiles and torpedoes - they don't track properly, at least not when the server is nearly full. If they were to be fixed, they could be tweaked to the point of usefulness, so they could be used as a counter to fighters and bombers [instead of MR and mines], which leads me to:
2. Make the damn fighters and bombers less immortal please ? As someone mentioned before, there's no way to destroy a bunch of bombers before they destroy their target; also half a dozen or more of fighters are able to destroy a battleship - which is basically defenceless.
3. I've had a doubtful pleasure of having a 2v2 fighter battle lately. It lasted 1 hour +. That's wrong.
4. There is too much, too annoying NPC's.
5. 4 hour death rule. Silly.

That is that.