You think the mechanic of Powerplay is stupid, pointless and useless? No, that's a sign! It is a chiphered message from someone in FD to the outer world.
Think of this:
Powerplay is not rulled by powers' heads, instead it's rulled by players. Not only that, but it's not even a democracy where decicions would be made by votes (nor it is a represantative democracy where votes could choose a leader [or a group of leaders] among the players to make decisions for the useless power head). Instead it's anarchy where everyone pull in their own direction like swan, pike and crawfish (go read it, it's just 13 lines).
Powerplay is highly affected by fifthcolumning. Players pledge to the powers other then those they actually support, so they can undermine them from inside. And they succed in leading other powers towards directions that would hurt them. It makes the power head in the direction of their own fall.
Now, doesn't it ring a bell?
Something having a great potential, but moving so straighforwardly into abyss that it can't be seen as not being deliberate?
I'll provide a hint: it starts with "Elite" and ends with "Dangerous".
At first I thought maybe FDev jsut don't know what they are doing with their game, like aforementioned swan, pike and crawfish, and so there's no progress in making the game better. But with every change they make to the game they manage to actually make it worse, and it's so sonsistent, I fail to believe anymore that it is not deliberate. There is certainly a fifth column within FDev that tries their best to ruin the game and so far they are successfull. They are now critically close to the point where the current mechanics can't be fixed anymore to save the game and needs to be reworked from scratch (though, I'm afraid they may be already beyond that point, but I hope for good).
That similarity of what happens to ED developement and the mechanics of Powerplay is not acidental. Someone in FD put it into the game to inform us of the situation whithin FDev, they also couldn't say it open as they can't trust anyone. And how Powerplay is not rulled by the actual powers is a loud sign of how ED developement isn't lead by DB, maybe it's actually his scream for help. "Help! Theey don't let me make a good game and do whatever they want instead, it all has gotten completely out of control! Save Elite: Dangerous before it collapsed like Arissa did!" he's shouting at us.
What can be done to help though? Disband FDev and spend money on DB's new kickstarter campaign for a real Elite 4? Or is there still a way to save the current Elite?
Think of this:
Powerplay is not rulled by powers' heads, instead it's rulled by players. Not only that, but it's not even a democracy where decicions would be made by votes (nor it is a represantative democracy where votes could choose a leader [or a group of leaders] among the players to make decisions for the useless power head). Instead it's anarchy where everyone pull in their own direction like swan, pike and crawfish (go read it, it's just 13 lines).
Powerplay is highly affected by fifthcolumning. Players pledge to the powers other then those they actually support, so they can undermine them from inside. And they succed in leading other powers towards directions that would hurt them. It makes the power head in the direction of their own fall.
Now, doesn't it ring a bell?
Something having a great potential, but moving so straighforwardly into abyss that it can't be seen as not being deliberate?
I'll provide a hint: it starts with "Elite" and ends with "Dangerous".
At first I thought maybe FDev jsut don't know what they are doing with their game, like aforementioned swan, pike and crawfish, and so there's no progress in making the game better. But with every change they make to the game they manage to actually make it worse, and it's so sonsistent, I fail to believe anymore that it is not deliberate. There is certainly a fifth column within FDev that tries their best to ruin the game and so far they are successfull. They are now critically close to the point where the current mechanics can't be fixed anymore to save the game and needs to be reworked from scratch (though, I'm afraid they may be already beyond that point, but I hope for good).
That similarity of what happens to ED developement and the mechanics of Powerplay is not acidental. Someone in FD put it into the game to inform us of the situation whithin FDev, they also couldn't say it open as they can't trust anyone. And how Powerplay is not rulled by the actual powers is a loud sign of how ED developement isn't lead by DB, maybe it's actually his scream for help. "Help! Theey don't let me make a good game and do whatever they want instead, it all has gotten completely out of control! Save Elite: Dangerous before it collapsed like Arissa did!" he's shouting at us.
What can be done to help though? Disband FDev and spend money on DB's new kickstarter campaign for a real Elite 4? Or is there still a way to save the current Elite?
