Open Letter to the Community

[sasapinjic]

As a fellow (ex)soldier, i simpatize with your mother.

As for trolling of some of players of this server, that is ever present problem of Disco for years, you cant be protected from them becouse they are to well connected, when they do small offense that is solved by slap on the hands, when they go really to far they are banned on short period, but you cant (permenatly) bann them becouse system is made that way that even permenatly bann is not permanent (which is by it self a bad joke), and you cant reason with them (becuse, if they have reason, they will not behave unreasonable).

Only thing you can do is offer to bribe them, ignore them complety and play your game in a way that will eliminate any Possibility they can bother you, or if that is not possible, leave game and find helthier place, like many have done tired of trolling, harrasing etc.
By playing in way that eliminate trollers, i mean :

-If you have POB and they want to destroy it, build a base where they have no influence, or, last case scenario, play without POB Completly, disco is way much more than POB,
-if you play with traders and they magickly show near you every time, dock and change ships to some other traders ih diferent part of game, there is looots of systems and trade ships are fairly cheap, so you can have lot of them.
-If you play with your friends /family in Combat ships and they gank you and they show near you harrasing you as usuall, ignore them, dock or crash and change characters, it is well known fact that when you ignore harrasees, they will soon get bored of you if you give them no fun. They will chase you if they have chance to kill you, but if you dock or crash every time they show, they will loose interest in you.

Observe, adapt, overcome, as they say.

---

Spoiler

welcome to Loberty
^ where you can get Freelancer ISO , in emergency

These two spoilers were too big so now they're both one ~Champ

[Rvg5]

Oh dear. When someone who's participated in real bloody war gets a PTSD from Disco. Tells something about it.

Games can get intense I suppose. I used to play a bunch of Arma 3 (when I had a better pc - rip) and I was doing a mission with a bunch of Vets. One of who was in Fallujah in Iraq. He was a combat medic and survived an IED attack when the other 3 guys in his Humvee didn't. We hit an IED in the game while on patrol. He had some form of panic attack or something. I have never felt so bad because I set the mission up (however the IED's were random). PTSD is a scary fuckin' thing and I had mad respect for anyone who has served and has to deal with these issues.

---

DHC-Kiel (Vincent Stiglitz - Daumann Heavy Construction)
DHC-Hammelburg (Vincent Stiglitz - Daumann Heavy Construction)[
[RM]Fl.Hugo.Oppenheimer (Hugo Oppenheimer - Rhineland Military)
RNC-Essen (Rhineland Military Reserve)
Russian_Weapons_Dealer (Freelance Weapon Smuggler)

[Laura C.]

I doubt you can solve this problem entirely even on mechanics basis without favouring either the base owners or the "mean guys" (which can be even from lawful side). It would either have be incredibly difficult and restricting for both sides, or the bases would have to be removed from the inRP environent entirely what is not a way to go also.

You actually can rebalance PoBs mechanics-wise in order to give more equal chances for both sides of a siege to succeed. It would need buffing hull points big time and nerfing repair rates accordingly, which then would grant us sieges requiring less people to overcome the repair rate but allowing a lot more time for the defenders to respond. The core of the concept is to create a - currently nonexistent - middle ground between either "our five dreads aren't making progress with a dps below the repair rate" and "it's just the six of us for 20 minutes and the Core4 is down".

The idea has gotten as far as being liked by (at least) two balance devs, but that was before Karst disappeared and I don't know what's the current dev team's stance on it right now. I can provide lotta spreadsheets of actual numbers resulting from several different possible settings if required.

I know this idea (and I am not sure if it can solve all possible scenarios efficiently, but let´s not derail this thread even further) and I don´t say current system does not require change or more balance. But I don´t believe there is any way how to "solve" the problem with destructible POBs on mechanics basis entirely. Well, except removing them altogether to prevent players getting hurt by losing them.

---

On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.

[Aya Nakimoto]

To all: I do not make apologies for how I presented the situation openly. It was not meant or intended to be material for debate over the mechanics of the game or how I presented the situation here openly. Yes I have prepared to face the negative comments with the grace my mother had afforded me while raising me.

Yes Ash you are very correct things could of been handled differently. But you had not seen what I had. I sure many would have reacted the same way, but by yelled at the screen and had a ton of animosity towards someone. Maybe I am a bit overly sensitive. After a few hours of sleep I can see your point. Either way it is out.

OrignlGaminGeneration Yes there was a second "transmission" I have read it myself. I have informed mother that there was a post she kind of grunted. As to when she will answer it..... I am not sure. But i will endevor to get her to respond to it in a timly manner so that she can get this behind her.

To all her wonderful friends i respectfully thank you for being as such. She so loves the game and the people she has met so far.

With that being said i ask the powers to be to lock the thead i do not want this to become something it was never intended to be

Thank you