Faction Activity - January

[LunaticOnTheGrass]

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.:j:.Rattlehead     New London     161     0     10
[*USI*]Albuquerque[L-E]     New York     98     0     18
[*USI*]Chicago     New York     46     0     6
[*USI*]J.Nowakowsky[CA]     New York     92     0     0
[KNF]Ni.Katsumi.Takeda     New Tokyo     120     0     0
[SC]The.Boss     New Tokyo     207     0     8
[UC]UCN-Vendeur.1     Burgundy     369     0     2
^DragonFly^     Omicron Gamma     59     0     2
_atenza     Hamburg     54     0     2
_OZYRYS_     Lyonnais     31     0     0
|IDF|Thorkel     Languedoc     66     0     10
1Piu     Connecticut     59     0     0
4-56|LN-A.Henderson-B     New York     114     0     2
Active_Mars_Red_91     Colorado     49     0     8
Alternate_Galliger     Manchester     82     0     2
AmagetDOWN     New Berlin     418     0     46
AncientAnt     Newcastle     41     0     0
ArgRIB     New Berlin     467     0     0
Banshee     Omicron-81     64     0     2
Beowolf     Omega-55     51     0     0
BloodTrader     California     77     0     2
Bonus.BoxIV     Frankfurt     168     0     0
BRF|HMS-Sutton     Connecticut     53     0     0
Burnout     Hudson     100     0     0
Captain_Sao_Feng     Cambridge     58     0     0
Captain-Pellaeon     Omega-3     60     0     4
CARRIER     Ile-de-France     100     0     0
Carthage     Omicron Gamma     64     0     2
Cerulean!Reaver     California     42     0     0
Chaotic     California     194     1     14
Charlemagne     Provence     113     2     0
Charlotte.Dunois     New York     53     0     0
Dazed.and.Confused     Newcastle     153     0     8
Eden-Martina     Virginia     45     0     0
Edgnis     Omicron Mu     46     0     0
Eldrich     New Berlin     47     0     0
Elysium's_Gate     Omega-7     116     1     6
Englebert     New Berlin     48     0     0
evoga2     Tau-23     60     0     6
FLYNPCS     New Berlin     145     0     0
Forlavee_Junior     Sigma-17     196     0     0
Gamboge,.Reaver     New York     138     0     0
GMI-PierreMartin[T]     Picardy     59     0     10
Hank_Groger     New York     25     0     0
Hasbelt     New York     56     0     4
HMS-Striker     Connecticut     28     0     0
Horune     New York     59     0     0
IMG|Frank.Rogers[R]     Kyushu     64     0     4
IMG|Golden.Nebula     Omega-3     51     0     0
IMG|Julia:Morrow     Sigma-13     56     0     0
IMG|Mat.Evanz     Kyushu     49     0     4
IMG|Mr.Otwell.     Tau-23     53     0     6
IMG|Piper.Maru[R]     Kyushu     263     0     0
IMG|Redstone-4     Kyushu     66     0     12
IMG-Westrok     Tau-23     360     1     8
jibs     New York     101     0     0
Johnywalker     Pennsylvania     55     0     0
Kanis     New York     67     0     2
kreetzer     Hamburg     44     0     2
LNS-Bs.Massachusetts     Connecticut     126     0     16
LNS-Concord     New York     55     0     0
Loky     Alberta     43     0     0
Matilda_Antioch     California     42     0     0
Meta-Beepo     Newcastle     96     1     0
Michael.Minster     New Tokyo     66     0     0
MND|RNC-Col.Wallenstein     Connecticut     38     0     0
Moonwalker[13th]     Connecticut     43     0     0
MORPHONYX     Colorado     58     0     0
MV-Crayter     Okinawa     56     0     0
Ol'Scrappy     Texas     59     0     6
O'Rhu|CV-Sakir'har     Omicron Mu     55     0     10
Pale:Reaver     California     160     0     0
Partisan     Cambridge     145     0     0
Pedro.Rodriguez     New York     279     0     2
piroman     Galileo     48     0     0
Raistlin     New London     314     0     4
RM-Brandenburg     Connecticut     49     0     0
Roger_Groger     New York     28     0     2
Rognor     New York     73     0     4
S.I.D._ZETA_12     New York     173     0     0
Sillyband     Shikoku     209     0     0
Skinfaxi     Omicron Kappa     91     0     2
SW)The.Digger     New London     47     0     2
Tator,Salad     New London     155     0     6
The_Prophecy     California     190     0     0
Tiberia     Cambridge     55     0     6
Tony_Marani     Connecticut     34     0     0
Troy.Kingston     New York     279     0     20
Turmoil     Connecticut     171     0     2
USS_Defiant     Leeds     137     0     0
VI|CPM-Equality     Omega-7     122     0     0
VI|CPM-Glory     Koeln     42     0     0
VR-Paddy.Hughs     New Berlin     47     0     0
VR-Persia.de.Shahrizai     New Berlin     88     0     0
Xiaoge     Newcastle     47     0     0
Zantac     Dublin     54     0     0
Zuretz     Omega-3     254     0     0

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That's the playerlist I just took down. From my count (correct me if I'm wrong), I counted 19 Official-Faction ships logged in, out of 98-ish online players.

Laura C and Silver are completely correct. The playerlist above has approximately 1/5th Official-faction players logged on. Who knows what all the others are, but clearly most of them are either uninterested or unwilling to attempt to join an official faction for whatever reason.

I'm not sure how to fix the problem, but I'm thinking that official factions are going to slowly decline as they have been unless the Disco powers-that-be take some kind of means towards combating this.

[Mímir]

You could ask indies what would make them join a faction rather than speculate about it. Just a thought.

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[Tunicle]

You could ask indies what would make them join a faction rather than speculate about it. Just a thought.

Mimir what would make you join a faction?

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[blubba]

Official factions leaders and their factions have put forward suggestions. Ideas for changes etc.
The official response was to ignore them, belittle them or attack their factions.
Are you surprised by the faction leaders indifference?
Really?

Fact is that 70% of factions are on the life support with few people trying to keep them alive for sake of keeping it alive. No purpose can be seen so far. Hope for the best future maybe?
But new players are just forming own unofficial factions and formations with own rules, ranks, story or whatever they want because there is no difference. Or not forming factions at all. Indy for the win. Someone wanted that so hard and he's not around to see the spoils of all the fails.
can propose to revert to all the old systems we had - old tech system especially, or old pvp rules, or whatever. Or better - I won't do anything because I don't particularly care any longer. I wasted enough time on giving all sorts of suggestions, proposals, reviews and other useless crap that no one in admin team read\notice\take seriously.

Let them do what they want, it's easier for us all. Once this turn into unplayable crap I'm going to rest my cases and leave. Now it's barely holding with little to no positive progress.

Factions decaying is just a symptom of the more global and conceptual problems.

Well said....sadly.
What's bizarre is that it keeps pushing on down the same route every update despite it's clearly not developing well in that direction.
Disco has stopped focusing on it's strengths and concentrated on everyone else's. Problem is, it's not very good at them and should have stuck to what it did best.

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[Mímir]

Not me, but ask in general. I already wrote my pov as a casual gamer, but I am completely sure there are other players out there who would be suitable to join a faction but don't for various reasons.

It would be better to ask them about those rather than go "it must be because they want no restrictions, don't care for roleplay, and don't speak english - admins pls punish" and then slip back into faction in-activity, right? I mean how about being a little bit positive, optimistic, and pro-active and do things a little bit differently for once?

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[Mao]

At the beginning of this discussion people suggested that disco is dying slowly because there's nothing new to the game. Partially, they are right. However, PoBs are new things but they're not enough, it seems. So, I have a suggestion: start working with a dynamic lore (something like Clan Wars in World of Tanks). Territorial battles and all kinds of events moderated by a team of admins and where only the official factions can take part.

Organize them daily, or at least every weekend and you'll give people something to play for (except grinding credits for the next battleship or carrying supplies to their station). And make the results visible to everyone as in game news and forum announcements. You can even make a map to show the modifications. "This week, Gallic forces were defeated in Manchester and the eastern part of the system was secured. Grids # # # and # now belong to the Liberty Navy."

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[Drakarska]

Just an observation from my brief time on the server, but after a (abeit quick) look in the official factions thread, it appears that an individual is typecast into a specific role. In addition, there appears to be a great deal of rules, rigid structure, and limited RP potential.

Where as with an Indy, you can RP however you want to as long as it stays within the parameters of your tag. This especially gives a new player more of a open ended type of RP versus a rigidly structured one.

I created a Corsair character with the intent of possibly joining an official faction, but after looking at the ones available from my brief reads, I haven't made up my mind yet. Perhaps when I actually take the time and fully read the available info on the official factions I will eventually make up my mind on what to do. But as it stands now, I am having a lot of fun RP'ing an indy. Just my 2 cents.

[Silver]

Not me, but ask in general. I already wrote my pov as a casual gamer, but I am completely sure there are other players out there who would be suitable to join a faction but don't for various reasons.

It would be better to ask them about those rather than go "it must be because they want no restrictions, don't care for roleplay, and don't speak english - admins pls punish" and then slip back into faction in-activity, right? I mean how about being a little bit positive, optimistic, and pro-active and do things a little bit differently for once?

Hello?
The direction of this mod has been indie oriented for the last... 3 updates?
So much positive that it got negative.

<3

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:12:00] Traxit: this is smut stop

[Sath]

At the beginning of this discussion people suggested that disco is dying slowly because there's nothing new to the game. Partially, they are right. However, PoBs are new things but they're not enough, it seems. So, I have a suggestion: start working with a dynamic lore (something like Clan Wars in World of Tanks). Territorial battles and all kinds of events moderated by a team of admins and where only the official factions can take part.

Organize them daily, or at least every weekend and you'll give people something to play for (except grinding credits for the next battleship or carrying supplies to their station). And make the results visible to everyone as in game news and forum announcements. You can even make a map to show the modifications. "This week, Gallic forces were defeated in Manchester and the eastern part of the system was secured. Grids # # # and # now belong to the Liberty Navy."

^This....+1 vote

[Lythrilux]

You could ask indies what would make them join a faction rather than speculate about it. Just a thought.

I'm actually planning to do this, hopefully I can publish the results later today.

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