Cormactopia Prime wrote:Jar Wattinree wrote:I see no merits from a purely and totally technical standpoint.
This isn't about "a purely and totally technical standpoint" either. I realize, as a member of The Pacific, that you're accustomed to doing whatever you're told and thus you're not accustomed to critical thinking, but try to follow what I'm saying here. This is about what's best for the overall game, including what's best for gameplay overall (and not just your corner of it), which goes beyond a merely technical discussion of whether the server requires more Feeders. The discussion is over whether gameplay would be less stale and more dynamic with more Feeders. Now, I realize The Pacific likes its gameplay stale and boring, but some of us would prefer to actually have a semi-exciting game to log into every once in a while.
So... Gameplay?
Suddenly your previous comments lose their meaning. On the one hand, you are saying this should be Technical only. Next, you're saying that it is also Gameplay.
So, to reiterate previous arguments -- like a good Pacifican drone -- adding more feeders won't solve the problems you see because there are none except for invented Gameplay (!!!) problems of the moment, and in a year at the most these new feeders will be stale and boring like the current ones -- and bolstering the power of userite regions that have captured them. There is a reason why the Pacific is the only natural-born community, all of the others have had people enter and try and take over from the onsite instead of letting the unique players who spawn in them form their own organic communities to actively engage in Gameplay in new and different ways.
Oh, wait, that's not what is really going to happen. Cf. Balder and Osiris' creation.
Besides, there is much, much more to NS than just
boring old Gameplay -- take a gander down in Forum 7, or post in Arts and Fiction, or maybe take up some roleplaying. Then the game can be exciting for
you. More feeders won't give you that excitement, only a temporary one. What you see is staleness, and that is largely of your own making, of your own specialization into Gameplay this and Gameplay that. This applies to all of us Gameplayers posting in this thread.
Me, I'm just content to log into this game and pretend I am a drone in a monolithic government that is so boring and so stale it hasn't seen a single change in many, many years. Not even a good ol' coup. What a boring game.