Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1073312-20140816013529/@comment-4242472-20140817095551

I agree that there should be a lot more communication between users, and perhaps quite a few situations that could be avoided or resolved if people stepped forward more (for instance the Xonexian Schism has it in its rules that there should be as much communication as possible between participants).

One of the issues that might correlate to lack of communication is how many of the older users have in-universe factions that could positively destroy the in-universe factions of newer users. It could be giving empowerment to the users of said high-power fictions that somehow bleeds out of universe (look at what has been said on galaxy owners for instance).

Another issue this causes is the newer users have less opportunity to interact with older users because their comparatively weak fictions can't really do much in terms of collaborative story-building. Its a downward spiral of:

New users find less reason to interact with old-user fiction -> Old users find their stuff is getting less attention or interest -> Old users find they can interact more with similarly-powered users -> old users become more distant to newer users and stick to among older users -> newer users react to distancing by not talking to older users or working with newer users.

One possible solution I would suggest is old users should try making more modestly-powered factions to work with, or alternatively try using the more modest in-universe factions they do have a lot more. It's been stated on the tier scale for years that tier 4 is intended to be the rough peak of the bell curve that is "tier level over number of fictions". But when looking at the number of active fictions, tier 4 is in the minority. while tier 2 is the peak of the curve, gradually dropping as one goes though tier 1.9, 1.7 then drastically dropping when moving towards tier 0