revision of the ZONERS faction - to avoid yearly discussions

[Toan Varcona]

hello all I stumbled across this thread and thought "oh Crap" another zoner minefield, since there are SO many different opinions regarding zoners, ill make my viewpoint known.

Yes I play as my "Space Exploration Force" [S.E.F~ ingame] most of the time yes we are zoners, we do TRY and do everything with RP and diplomacy, as zoners should, in my opinion zoners are not like a house military in any way but still require a way to defend themselves incase diplomacy and co-existence fails for some reason,

I get the impression zoners are supposed to take what ever crap flies their way lying down and do nothing about it, zoners are HUMAN so they will only take so much crap before they say " enough is enough " and start to DEFEND themelves

the later can be very hard if said zoner factions under attack are small, and lack the player count to properly defend themselves...

[that's a bit hard when your passing through a system and get 6 other players stop your ship and fire a 50 million fine from a empty spatial because they looking for a quick blue message just because your a zoner.]

that's just one example of when no matter how hard a zoner tries to RP with EVERYONE as best he can as a zoner , but maybe the "oh look a zoner GANKSquad attack time" attitude my small faction seem to be facing a lot of late

as for the ships I just don't know what to think, its just not that simple anymore, yeah the zoners could do maybe with more survivability rather than Raw firepower
while I like the idea of Qships and battle transports, I don't really fancy loosing our zoner cap ships which we RP as exploration ships every chance we get since that what our faction does, some of these RP platforms took years to evolve into what they are, and to have them drastically changed could really impact the feel and the Rp,

my opinions are split between revision and keeping what we have

just my thoughts on this

All you've mentioned is fine and all, but why you need your ship to be a dreadnaught for it to be a good RP platform? Would it be any worse for that use as a Liner?
I doubt.

As for defending yourself - you have many factions that are independent and yet don't count on cap fire-power. 2 good examples for that would be GMG and IMG.

well the use of Nephilims as exploration craft is ideal since they can basicly sustain themselves for years on end and allow for really long missions that a liner cannot

true we don't always need caps to defend ourselves what my faction lacks is the manpower , despite being around for over 3 years, as I stated above imagine your in my shoes for a bit , your flying your spatial and boom set upon by 6 yes 6 combat craft while one fires a 50 million credit demand at you? what do ya do?

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