"Additionally, as soon as you go all the way to Deneb the one or two players that might login will call you to fight in B8"

Then tell them to STFU and get their heinnies over to Deneb where they belong. Are you a lieutenant of [ONE] or just another sheep?

- Pizzasgood

I get your point but thats not really the point; and likely ONE is already doing that as a nation guild.

But by your statement this sort of agrees that there are so few players including serco that the total of ONE active membership equates to the entire Itani/Serco war on the Serco side.

I don't consider this a Vendetta but just a sad group of refugees trying to restart a war that is basically over. And what little war fighters there are left typically end up at the grey wh's where the most actions seems to be.

The new story is something like this

Vendetta the aftermath:
The war has left few survivors of the long lasting war.
Out of the ashes of the leftover ruins of war every sort of evil take hold on the people.
Since no law enforcement of either nation are left to protect the people there is only chaos.
People out of fear resort to joining pirate guilds in fear of being ganked to death and fear of starvation.
Trade routes are cut off and many reluctantly join the pirate guilds
The tiresome struggle to get goods to market ends with high fees paid to the pirates. Even nationalists guilds are paying pirates for getting goods to market leaving no one left to restore order.
Due to the limited number of itani/serco survivors of the war both have become outcasts as only a memory of law and order are left.
Nationalists are no longer respected but lawlessness runs rampant.

Now begins the Pirate Wars
Pirates against pirates laying claim to their piece of the action.
The Itani / Serco War fades to only a rumor of war with only a slight satisfaction among the very few survivors that neither side has lost.

The end

lol @ People out of fear resort to joining pirate guilds in fear of being ganked to death

FYI: being a pirate is the one sure way to consistently get ganked in VO and have everyone tell you that you deserved it.

^^^**

+1 to temp-home suggestion. Only "Spirit" or "brain" are transported somewhere else, exactly like dying in space, except that you must be docked to a station and respawns somewhere else (until you die or mission ends)

That is not much more than being homed in Edras and die in Deneb, technically

"FYI: being a pirate is the one sure way to consistently get ganked in VO and have everyone tell you that you deserved it."

Hell... ya don't even have to be a pirate, even having piratical friends is enough to get ya ganked by carebears.

temp home idea is not bad idea, but I still seems like many suggestions are related to lack of participation in the game in general.

If there were many more players in Deneb all the time I think going 20min to get there from grey would not be horrible if you were planning to stay a while or even a week or so.

Look at Deneb Stats right now this is a great example, although there is activity sometimes, but a whole entire week today is Sat. with only 3 serco that participated in what appears to be 2 sector battles.
Although there was some Itani participation much more then serco still very low considering the Vendetta theme.

I don't know that I undersand the stats page entirely that show player assisted wins of 6 in the top row and yet only 3 wins in the participant stats windows.
While showing 7 serco wins in the skirmish list which 3 of those were itani participants leaving technically 4 serco participant wins which I see the row column for that shows 4 in the summary

itani should not be listed as player assisted wins = 6 in the summary it should only show serco player assist wins = 3

Who were these othere 2 player assisted wins ? I can only guess they were itani shown on the skirmish serco wins list; and if thats the case they should get a major faction hit for aiding the enemy and assisting the win.
Well NOT but stats page should be adjusted so they don't simply show assisted wins simply because someone is there, but actually who they are fighting for.

Anyhow Serco participation in the entire week of Vendetta 4 actual missions
1 of which was new alt or player just sitting in station, and one was UIT fighting for serco leaving only 2) lonely serco

The idea is great but just not enough players.
You can't have a Vendetta with only 2) Serco participants

So to stick with the topic of the post:
"Things I wish were different: Thoughts on returning"

In short more players and this means marketing based on a successful marketing model.

Well thats about all I can say about this

Happy blogging, I'll keep watching the Deneb Stats pages.