It's Saturday night in the UK and I may have had a couple of drinkies, so apologies if this goes on a few rambling tangents.
Some of you will be aware of what squadron I'm a part of, what we stand for and what we do. Others far more eloquent than me will have gone into more detail here and I'm not looking to rehash any of this. Suffice to say we have, in our way, always looked to build something within the game.
Now, one of the ways we have looked to do this is by improving the engineers in Colonia. One way or another we hope (with others in the region) to have this completed fairly soon (ask @Paul Smith the 3rd for details- as I said, I've been drinking).
The question is once this is done, what is there for players to build for the benefit of others? Personally, I've helped defend the bubble from the Thargoid invasion in late 3304/early 3305; I've worked with Operation Ida to repair stations afterwards and now I've been working with others to provide a region which if it is nothing else, will be practically a one stop shop for players engineering their ships.
What is next (and this is the TL;DR bit, I should have mentioned this at the start. Did I mention I've had a couple of drinks?)? What will players be able to do to build something that everyone can use and benefit from, even if our individual contributions are fractions of a %? Will we have any grand projects starting next year that we can work on to constructively impact the player base as a whole?
I do understand this isn't for everyone, but I believe there is enough of us who want to be involved in such a thing that we hope something like this will happen (and I'm not expecting something like this to necessarily be around the Odyssey launch).
Some of you will be aware of what squadron I'm a part of, what we stand for and what we do. Others far more eloquent than me will have gone into more detail here and I'm not looking to rehash any of this. Suffice to say we have, in our way, always looked to build something within the game.
Now, one of the ways we have looked to do this is by improving the engineers in Colonia. One way or another we hope (with others in the region) to have this completed fairly soon (ask @Paul Smith the 3rd for details- as I said, I've been drinking).
The question is once this is done, what is there for players to build for the benefit of others? Personally, I've helped defend the bubble from the Thargoid invasion in late 3304/early 3305; I've worked with Operation Ida to repair stations afterwards and now I've been working with others to provide a region which if it is nothing else, will be practically a one stop shop for players engineering their ships.
What is next (and this is the TL;DR bit, I should have mentioned this at the start. Did I mention I've had a couple of drinks?)? What will players be able to do to build something that everyone can use and benefit from, even if our individual contributions are fractions of a %? Will we have any grand projects starting next year that we can work on to constructively impact the player base as a whole?
I do understand this isn't for everyone, but I believe there is enough of us who want to be involved in such a thing that we hope something like this will happen (and I'm not expecting something like this to necessarily be around the Odyssey launch).
