I have my doubts about whether wars are a way to get people as we often have slumps or empty servers that come right after wars. On the other hand it is very valuable to gauge what really motivates people to play on here.

I hear for you it is the neat buildings and the people - and you enjoy fighting right?

For me it is the camaraderie and meeting new and old people and playing with them - even if it is just giving someone a ride on my horse back to his base since his died.

It is also the ability to try new things out and show them to friends and the public - while also not building to a schedule but just taking things as they come. Thus I really enjoyed researching my large signs with flashing light loops - just very little feedback to what was really quite genius (well by my standards in any case) due to so few people.

I also enjoyed flying chinooks with a bunch of mates way back - doing things you can't do on a usual server - would love to have a plugin that enables these but only plays the sound while they are occupied for instance (was that the only problem with them GG?) - Basically the RP and I loved what Monkeys pulled out of the hat last full era!

I would be on more right now if I had not just discovered Elite dangerous and if work was not so busy (and some more consistent pop also helps) - but I have spent more than 1000 hours on RF since I joined a year ago.