I'm torn on this at the moment, part of me likes being able to quickly check if anyone is doing anything interesting in systems that I "watch" on the other hand lately I look for names of specific ships, regardless of their location.
Ask me in two weeks, maybe I'll be more pro or con
Good bye piracy. I knew that someone will come to me and i will interact with him soon, but now. I won't even know if someone will come to me. Not interesting at all. Make it like it was. Freelancer became almost fully not interesting game for me already because of changes, but now. Really? Removing systems? Hell no. Get them back =(
(12-20-2016, 11:03 AM)Laura C. Wrote: Nothing is more fun than flying around on "patrol" for hour with no encounters, that´s what everybody wants to do on multiplayer server. It´s definitely going to "help" activity in areas like Omicrons or Omegas where player movement is not streamlined at least little by trade lanes and jumpgates like in houses (and which can also be scouted in more reasonable time thanks to trade lanes). I stand by my point that this change will hurt activity in non-house space in major way. Good luck finding anyone in open space with 15K scanner (and range is even reduced in some areas).
The list still wouldn't help you find players within the system, it would only tell you that there are players in it, something that is done by the ingame list at any rate.
Oddly enough Disco's "golden years" were populated by people doing exactly what Petitioner mentioned, literally flying around just to see who would pop up. It'll be a refreshing change to see that again and anything that steers us away from the current "lobby" way of doing things is all the better in my humble opinion.
I would like to remind you that in those golden years, usual server population was 3-4 times higher than now, so just randomly flying around was enough to get encounters. These days you may spend hours alone in some areas if you will be just randomly flying around.
Anyway, I thought that the ingame playerlist is affected too. Since it seems it´s not, then okay, web player list with just regions should be okay (well, after systems will be sorted properly and the best thing would be public list, because not everyone knows which systems belong to which category).
I actually have enough random encounters while blindly flying around. I just don't fly around in Rheinland, as nobody goes there. It's more probable to have random encounters in Gamma, Delta, Bretonia and Liberty than in Gallia, Rheinland and Kusari. Like, Delta is usually the point where people hunt nomad remains or try their luck and get Iridium Ore from Lost, or they hang just out at Freeport 11. Bretonia is the best spot for PoBs and Liberty the best spot for random fights. Gamma is a bottleneck to the Nomicrons. Rheinland, Kusari and Gallia have nothing in long-term to offer. That's more of a problem than the low player counts.
Well, it´s not long time ago when Rheinland was what Bretonia is today. Lot of POBs which were attracting players and helped to create stable activity. But then, local unlawful faction went on killing spree, almost all bases were killed/died and players stopped playing or went to play elsewhere, including Bretonia. Sometimes players´ interest shifts naturally, sometimes it´s consequence of players´ behaviour.
(12-20-2016, 05:17 PM)Laura C. Wrote: Well, it´s not long time ago when Rheinland was what Bretonia is today. Lot of POBs which were attracting players and helped to create stable activity. But then, local unlawful faction went on killing spree, almost all bases were killed/died and players stopped playing or went to play elsewhere, including Bretonia. Sometimes players´ interest shifts naturally, sometimes it´s consequence of player behaviour.
I don't think this is entirely true, Rheinland (lawfuls) still have a decent indie player base, the other day [RHA] had a fun pvp interaction with some RM indies in dresden. 4 RM battleships and several other bombers and cruisers fought RHA. Please do not make accusations that are both harmful and false. Thank you.
(12-20-2016, 05:17 PM)Laura C. Wrote: Well, it´s not long time ago when Rheinland was what Bretonia is today. Lot of POBs which were attracting players and helped to create stable activity. But then, local unlawful faction went on killing spree, almost all bases were killed/died and players stopped playing or went to play elsewhere, including Bretonia. Sometimes players´ interest shifts naturally, sometimes it´s consequence of player behaviour.
I don't think this is entirely true, Rheinland (lawfuls) still have a decent indie player base, the other day [RHA] had a fun pvp interaction with some RM indies in dresden. 4 RM battleships and several other bombers and cruisers fought RHA. Please do not make accusations that are both harmful and false. Thank you.
Apples and oranges. I am talking about drop in trading activity (and thus in general activity) and you come to claim it´s not true because you had there good fight the other day and lawful and unlawful activity is untouched (what actually isn´t true as well)? But do you really want to claim that trading activity as well as general level of activity in Rheinland is same these days like it used to be before you changed Red Hessians into Rheinland version of Liberty Rogues with "50milordai" so called roleplay regarding all POB regardless of their nature?
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