Does Disco still have enough player base to keep running all factions ?

[Marburg]

My recollection of starting out on the server (October of last year) is that it was:

- difficult to get started. I knew vanilla pretty well but it was still radically different here, with different systems, mining areas, trade routes, etc. I couldn't find people willing to explain things either, and I didnt meet my first Angel until my 3rd or 4th ship at which point I no longer needed their help. What's interesting now is that it is very easy to get started if you know what to do, but at the time I was helpless and lost. I had to rely on Internet searches for everything and it was all outdated stuff. Wiki is contradictory on a lot of stuff, like RP fiction in the infocards that does not correlate to gameplay at all (can I really fly this ship into the atmosphere?? kee-rash)

Reading this bothered me in comparison to my own experience starting out. I had more people willing to help me learn as a noob than I could keep up with. Yeah, I know. Different era & all that, but it's still just as easy today to break character here & there to lend some helpful advice to a noob that asks for it as it was years ago. The only thing that's really changed is a larger number of regulars that don't give a wet fart about 'em. If I had a similar experience like Urs describes, I'd have said 'eff this place!' after a week or so & would have never come back.

While joining a faction can be a fast track to getting to know people & learning the server ropes, being in a faction is far less important than just exuding a basic helpful attitude when it's called for, no matter what banner you fly under.

I don't really pine for the 'good ol days' more than I simply pity the regression of general attitude from then to now.

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