Assaulting Zoners and OORPness

[Jinx]

@myriadic: thats where - in a roleplayway - one of the greatest problems of the zoners comes into effect. they are poorly organized and - except for the newly installed council - have allmost no way to make decissions as a faction.

i think that is unique in sirius - cause every other faction, npc and playerfaction, has some sort of a "head". So ( cause the thread is called zoners and oorpness ) it is also oorp if all zoners suddenly bunched together to act like one army.
i know - that when its about the game itself. the zoners are not very much weaker than a pure military force - having high end equipment around aswell as very good warships and access to a wide array of civilian ships, "by stats" it cannot be said that they are really much weaker. but in a roleplay way they cannot act as one - or not unless something happens that makes all zoners get much closer together than they are now.

k - to answer or comment about some previous things posted:

"The reason I am weary of Zoner traders is because they can dock on both Corsair and Outcast bases." (McNeo)
- in Theory they can, but in reality ( or whats called reality ) a traderoute is much more fixed. the efford of logistics and supply chains is too much to "simply change your traderoute". With that in mind, a zoner must make a decission - trade with outcasts or trade with corsairs - but not switch happily between them. Similar to the generic Military / Merc Ids, the zoner must rely on his reputation to be a "well known trader acting for the good of those factions involved most of the time"

so of course, an unknown zoner trader in such a dangerous place ( well, they are dangerous ) will be asked about his intentions and maybe forced to ... "share" untill his reputation is well enough. Its a problem, when one trader HAS a long term reputation and is still taxed; which can happen, cause not every member of a faction really knows about everyone else ( in the end, there are well more than 150 active players out there )

When my outcast trader ( yes, i actually had one outcast trader AND one corsair trader ) met a pirate taxing, i was usually fortunate enough to have either a cargoload of slaves ( to malta - and i could allways tell the pirate that .... some people at malta would be very "sad" if they didn t get their prostitutes in time ) or a cargo load of cardamine ( to wherever in liberty ) - so the pirate would know that if he shot me down - he d have to face the consequences with the dukes back in alpha.
can t say much about non outcast cargo though - cause the only time i was intercepted then was by dreygon - so i only heard a mad laugh followed by a broadside of funny, colourful flashes. but if i had been caught without direct outcast stuff - i could have referred to my repuation as being a trader that mostly transfers outcast goods - and if that had no effect, i would prolly pay.

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