Discovery, for me, is just a really fancy GUI for a roleplay platform. The actual gameplay itself is dirt poor. Maybe if I could get a hang of PvP, I'd think otherwise, but that's how I feel about it right now.
Place is not dead yet, it's just overfield with crap.
And everything what Govedo said it right. There are too many capital ships, which are too easy to get. New players are focused on obtaining their battleships, rather getting on with mod and gaming.
I miss those times, when you had to trade for around 1-2 month to get 200M just for empty cruiser. And you were thinking, about rules and gaming, because, you rly didn't wanted to loose your new expensive toy.
P.S. Loging into game not even worth time spend there now srsly. Sry for rude words, but it is.
Right at the moment Disco FL is a bit spoiled because the capital vessel are allowed to pirate - back when piracy was only allowed in a GB or smaller, I occasionally got pirated and killed the pirate, now I ether pay or destroy my cargo and die. That is my considered opinion as regards server problems.
Edit: After pirates were allowed to use capital vessels I ended up making more capital charas, just to get a bit of combat fun and be able to rp as anti pirate duties.
Why I have a bad feeling, that, when majority of bugs gona be fixed, and rollback is about to happen... server's averange population going be around 10 players.