Want to see the SM player base increase? Make it not a tooth and nail fight just to move around in vanilla. Let servers downgrade jumps if they want - don't torture new players in vanilla.
It's been a while since I visited a multiplayer server with vanilla jumps and nothing to start but the little starter kit (no admin spawns, no $1B starting creds, no carebears camping spawn to help ppl). Pure tedium. Had 2 hours to play, spent 90% of that just moving from spot to spot to...
Retain more new players - fix vanilla jumps
It's been a while since I visited a multiplayer server with vanilla jumps and nothing to start but the little starter kit (no admin spawns, no $1B starting creds, no carebears camping spawn to help ppl). Pure tedium. Had 2 hours to play, spent 90% of that just moving from spot to spot to...
Retain more new players - fix vanilla jumps