Dear devs and admins:

[Camtheman]

Bored Spazzy? Making new troll squads is not enough for ya?

Camping the Colorado gate with 4 of your "friends" and killing anything that comes through it with two lines of rp for each ship harms the server game play more than the lag does.

LMAO

Get an old fashioned LABC gankforce started up?

They'll die fairly quickly.

Otherwise I would not play the game if it was not for my own gain and amusement. You on the other hand...seem to view it as a job. Sucks to be you, I suppose.

XD hell yeah

[AeternusDoleo]

I as well as my friends have been discussing this topic for some time now and I wanted to let the community voice their opinion on this:

POBs, while a great addition to the Discovery mod, have made the server unstable. Tenths of people are wasting hours of ingame time assaulting solars with little to no RP to spite the players, who have constructed them. The lag caused by such assaults on a daily level prevents any chance for players to engage in a territorial battle like the ones between LN and RM or OC and Corsairs just to name a couple.
The problem here is that PoBs cannot be made invoulnerable because the attackers would whine and they cannot be made easier to kill, otherwise the owners will whine.

Before player bases, the Gamma/Alpha/Texas/Hamburg/Leeds large cap engagements did much the same. The issue is not playerbases, but the HUGE excess of capital ships in the game. If we're going to snip something, let's start there:
- All pirate factions restricted to cruisers and below. Poorly supplied pirate factions not even a cruiser.
- All house corporate factions, civvy stuff only.
- All unaffiliated factions (Zoner, BHG, IMG, GMG and other non-house lawful factions) limited to cruiser and below.
- Restrict the amount of battleships house navies may field by making those one per official player faction (meaning you -can- have more of them, just need more player factions on the ID. Also means you have to have a group of players working together and generating activity, to be able to field one).
Then make their main guns and shields significantly more powerful (the ones that drive away cruisers but are pointless against snubs) and the problem is largely solved.

This would end battleship spam. This would end the server crashing from battleship spam. It would also cause an insane amount of Q_Q from every capwhore in the game. But it would address the problem mentioned in the top post.

On another note though - it may be just the complexity of the capship hitboxes being an issue - not sure. We're looking into those as well. No quick fixes.

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From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.

Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.

[Aingar]

While I agree with most of the stuff you just said AD, that "1BS/Faction" is 'a bit' extreme, especcially given the fact that there is "1 Official faction per ID" rule.

Also, I guess BS's would require a buff, since they would be so rare.

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[Tunicle]

While I agree with most of the stuff you just said AD, that "1BS/Faction" is 'a bit' extreme, especcially given the fact that there is "1 Official faction per ID" rule.

Also, I guess BS's would require a buff, since they would be so rare.

BS's could be based on a ratio linked to active players in the faction.

[sindroms]

You seem to have missed the point. I said that before we had those big fleet battles and they caused the same issue. Now the same issue is caused by base seges, so there is no more room for epic battles anymore..

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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[Xelon]

You seem to have missed the point. I said that before we had those big fleet battles and they caused the same issue. Now the same issue is caused by base seges, so there is no more room for epic battles anymore..

Wait what?

What do you understand under Epic battle?
There where a few big battles in the past 2 months, granted there wheren't 15 caps that fought but surely about 4-8 with about double that number of snubs on each side.
If that isn't epic enough. :wacko:

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[AeternusDoleo]

What's the difference between "epic battle" crashing a server, and "epic battle" in the proximity of a base crashing the server, Spazzy?

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Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.

Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.

[sindroms]

What's the difference between "epic battle" crashing a server, and "epic battle" in the proximity of a base crashing the server, Spazzy?

There are no epic battles in the proximity of a base. There are just 10 caps shooting a stationary object. The only actual battles I have seen were the O3 ones. That one was a good and large battle.

But as for the others, it is just one side shooting a base. Nothing else.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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[Vladimir]

The only actual battles I have seen

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Oh here we go. What a shame, should've said that in first post.

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[sindroms]

Oh here we go. What a shame, should've said that in first post.

Isn't a discussion meant to represent the thoughts of a single person as the opening post? I cannot really speak for the whole community now can I, otherwise your reply would point that out.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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