Will we ever get events that encourage crews to interact with each other in a positive way ever again? Events that bring people together, like The Hungering Deep or Skeleton Thrones. Those events are years old now, but they still remain my favorite time within the game because of how it brought players together in a meaningful and cooperative way. I genuinely made real friends because of those events, but without almost anything like it since, fun interactions with other players rarely happen anymore.
Rarely do I find players who want to start alliances in good faith, or even understand how alliances work because the system has been utterly neglected for so long.
Positive interactions in this game are rare for me anymore outside of my own crews, which I find a shame. There’s so much suspicion even approaching another crewed ship that encounters rarely end in a friendly way. I have had good experiences once in a while with other crews over the years but nothing to compare back to those events I mentioned before.
I think bringing events like those back, even just every so often would do this game a lot good in building more community within the game. Perhaps revamping or making the purpose of alliances clear in game would also help.
Perhaps even adding mechanics to make truces between crews for temporary ceasefires or small safe zones where players cannot attack each other would allow for more room for crews to interact beyond blasting each others ships apart, while allaying suspicions that cause crews to turn on each other.
