There are 85 POBs on the server.

[Hidamari]

Hidamari, it would be prudent to actually confirm whether or not what you're saying is right before stating it as fact.

Hint: you're wrong.

proven by the server im sure, not really, again with your infinite wizdom.

Everytime the server gets 'updated' it gets worse, the lag gets worse, the balance gets worse, the story gets more far fetched. You are the one that is wrong Kazinsal.

Server proving me right since .86

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[Smorpheus]

4.87 needs some help. It's just not as good as it used to be. The infuriating amount of player owned bases for one. And also definitely the bad story lines and lag as Hidamari said.

[Kazinsal]

I think you fail to realise the reason your faction gets permenantly ignored

False -- The Bundschuh have been receiving attention in the past few updates.

is because Gallia is taking all of the devs time away

Patently false. Gallia is not the main development focus for 4.87, but rather the catalyst for it. 4.85 introduced Gallia, 4.86 expanded it, 4.87 uses it as a tool.

from literally dozens of vanilla factions that could use the love instead.

Not entirely untrue, but I wouldn't say there are "literally dozens" considering there were only a few dozen factions in Freelancer.

sure you may have gotten a few tiny cumbs of the big cake and ran with it making you a little happy. but imagine there wasnt a fat lump at the dinner table called "wasted time" with a gallia t-shirt on eating all the cake so you were actually allowed some of it.

You seem to have a major issue with the drive behind the storyline.

ALL other factions non-gallic related would simply be better off without the existence of gallia, FACT.

Also false -- Gallia is a major plot point that each faction is responding to in the way it feels most appropriate.

devs might actually have put in time to figure out how to make Kusari somewhere people genuinely want to play, how to fix the sigmas again for the same reason.

Something players and factions are completely allowed to do on their own. Unless you need aerelm to hold your hand while you try to spark activity.

God there are just so many other things that could be fixed if everything wasnt being focused on Gallia

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't think any changes have touched Gallia for Update 6 at all and the main focus of the patch is Sirian factions and fixing broken gameplay mechanics. (post-edit: I'm wrong -- I think we've removed four dead-end systems.)

You seriously have no idea how much work has gone into everything between 4.85 and now. Removing Gallia from the mod would waste five years of work shared among several dozen people and most certainly be the oft-mocked "final nail" sealing Discovery's fate.

There are many more productive things you could be doing right now to try and spark activity in places that need it. Whining about Gallia isn't going to do jack.

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Retired, permanently.

[Omi]

Moshi moshi, Gallia desu~

Kaz is right. We don't get that much - if any - dev attention.

We don't really need it, either, so it's a good thing in my book.

except pls revert the pot-de-fer nerf and buff carbines

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[RedEclipse]

You seriously have no idea how much work has gone into everything between 4.85 and now. Removing Gallia from the mod would waste five years of work shared among several dozen people and most certainly be the oft-mocked "final nail" sealing Discovery's fate.

What if use Gallia features in other houses? Yeah, that's waste of infocards - but at least not everything, ships can be used somehow too.

Personally I think, bringing storyline to 4.84 would be cool, before Igiss madness in 4.85.

[GrnRaptor]

except pls revert the pot-de-fer nerf and buff carbines (m/s & shield damage)

Onegai shimasu!

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[tyro]

somethimes I don't understand what is going on here.

why don't you give it only for factions? change PoB to F(action)oB.
there is no better way to solve problems, to increase the RP quality, than to give factions rights to deal with it.

for god sake give the bases only for them and problem solved. if you don't want too many bases, limit them for 2 or 3 or whatever per one faction.

if there will appear problems with wrong located base or something, then it is a lot easier to solve problem with a faction: RP, diplomacy or admins intervention.

there is no bigger value in this community than official factions!

however last times I see that there is a tendency to reduce the importance of official factions, so this is not acceptable idea probably.

[Mímir]

If you look at some of the trouble-causing bases, they are in fact operated by official factions. Rather make bases srp to ensure that the rp quality is in fact there, indies and factions alike would have something to aspire to.

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[Coin]

make bases multi-faction projects

+1

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[Vipera Berus]

Its worse now - since this thread started the POB count has risen to 87.