Is Sirius too big?

[Croft]

Yeah Sirius is too big, there needs to be less systems and more bottlenecks, make it so travel from one end of the galaxy to the other requires you to go through house systems, funnel people into populated zones or bottlenecks etc. Remove all the guard systems and replace them with bases, give smugglers and traders two route options, fast, dangerous and profitable or slow, easy and less profitable.
Shrinking Gallia is a must but make a third way in that's contested by the Royals and the Council (perhaps make it easier to enter Gallia in general? not sure on this but finding the way through those minefields always puts me off.)

I'd have to disagree with the removal of freelancer/pirate ID's they allow for variety which is never a bad thing. Discovery needs, from my point of view, is direction and storyline flexability, give offical factions the ability to influence changes in the game, even just slight changes would be great.

Right now we're simply thrown a storyline and told "thats what your faction is doing, go do it" without a say in the matter. I don't mean that each faction has total control over its role but can give some input in to what direction their role takes.

For example, say the Corsairs have been active (time and maybe kills?) in Cambridge more so than the BPA or BAF in a month or two.
First it would be stronger NPC ships
Next more Corsair NPC patrols
Trade prices may rise (more piracy targets)
Reduced BPA and BAF NPC's
A small cap appears near the O5 jumphole (cruiser)
Which finally becomes a dockable battleship or small base
A rough idea but you get the picture.

However only offical factions could cause the changes giving players a reason to join them and hopefully boosting activity. It'd probably be a pain in the backside to do something like this but its a good way of simulating a changing galaxy.

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