I agree with Joe about this being internet and people who want to play as something they dream about.
And there are really a lot of people on the internet doing that since everyone has his own imagination.
And since disco actually has close to 0 limits on role play it is very easy to put your imagination/fantasies in freelancer.
The only way to solve part of these kinda RP/characters is more things to do for real freelancer.
For example checking the newest news items in the bar and then checking it out.
In short I agree there has to be brought more Freelancer into discovery.
it's to much of play ground.
Make people more attractive to freelancer fantasies then movie or other game fantasies.
But doing this is rather a hard and long progress to come up with proper solution.
But then again this is the internet, people want freedom as can been seen in the world, and in the poll in the link.
Every living thing wants freedom.
But it also needs boundaries which they won't allow that quickly.
I'm not saying that having a name of a movie makes you 'out of freelancer'.
but behaving that this freelancer is like that certain movie really gives me itchy feelings to kick someone right where it hurts.
Edit: Angles do tell people how to act and what to do most of the time. Just not enough Angles around and to many new players.
Edit2:
Something just popped up to me in a brainwave.
I suppose some people have played games with achievements etc.
if these could be implanted in disco that would be 'a lot of work' but also help new people follow certain task and doing them right gets 'em something.
kinda like a MP campaign. or a welcome campaign for every faction you want to join.
However this would all take a lot of work and be really hard to do.
Flak88 has a small MP campaign thingie where you can learn the new way of pvp.
if such things could be extended to more it would be pretty cool.
