Quote:Aside from established RP which they'd like to continue, zoners like their zoner caps precisely due to their unique appeal of being able to be in a cap and all over the universe, without getting shot at by everyone else nor breaking server rules, among other things.
There it is. You want your big toy to show off and do....nothing. Fact is you don't need the biggest BS in the game to fly around the universe and be neutral with. There have been plenty of other good points made about how/why Zoners couldn't support, maintain, or even need large caps, so I'm not going to repeat them. At this point, the die-hards will defend their Nephs and Aquillons to the end.
Quote: highland, you prolly don't remember having to mash the mouse button trying to get connected to the server for '85.
I first started playing the game back when it was .85, albeit on a different server than this one. Good times, indeed. But Zoners and their extensive yet useless capship line were just as annoying then as now.
its not the official factions that are 'annoying' but the indies. if the official factions were annoying, they;d have been bastilled and severely spanked with the banhammer, as has happened to annoying factions in the past. Can't think of any official sanctions. sure, we all lined up to shoot at fp7 (made a change from raiding gamma everyday), but the achilles heel of the zoners is their RP.
what?
the sairs have a unique approach to someone taking a cap into bretonia and shooting up the place. we call them a ship thief, as the caps are for the defence of crete. but the sairs have a homeworld, and thus this kinda makes sense.
the zonerzonerzoners have no home world (gran canaria doesnt count, thats a corsair world thanks ), they are spread out all over the server, and truth be told, get along as well as cats tied into a sinking bag. I could see the zoners coming back stronger from this, but maybe only if they fragmented further, and had each base as their home turf. this is the same as the sairs have done. the benitez (i seem to bethe sole survivor of an apocalypse), the sails and the tbh get along well by joining up with each other when it suits, and sticking to our own kniiting elsewise. i could totally get behind a fragmented zoner faction with tags like (fp1) or (fp4), and their ill-fated caps named (fp7), in memorium, ad salutem, ergo bibendum.
what i just cannot see is why a bhg/core technerf wasnt applied to the faction. deleting the ships is a duckmove, has caused unnecessary grief and butthurt all around.
(02-25-2014, 06:42 PM)Highland Laddie Wrote:
Quote:Atleast,one player can see it from the general game/activity/fun/RL point of view that I have been raged over for speaking my mind out all this time.Forgive the lore/RP/whatever that is Disco for a moment.Think it as just another game,one which is fun to play.And you cant decide what roles the people here want to take.Its dictatorship then.Its their will to choose a role and defend it from the anarchy of the community,that is so.
Nobody is forcing anybody to play as a Zoner...or any other faction, for that matter. But rules are there to help KEEP a game fun and prevent abuse. Try playing on a server with too loose rules or no rules at all...and see how much fun you're having there. If the game isn't that fun for you...then play something else. I dunno what else to tell you.
i am literally -this- close to starting up a 85+ server. will be the 85 map, with a shrunken gallia, and a few extra toys thrown in. Pobs will be present, but only under srp for bases within 20k of the datum plane. i like playing freelancer. i like smuggling a load of artifacts or cardamine into manhatten whilst telling the navy that there's a smuggler in texas/cali. I even used to play SP when i lived in the boondocks and had no internet connection, and that kept me sane whilst i was bedridden with a c6 disc bulge. i've flown with some awesome people, from the judges, to the strontium dogs, to the White Tigers, to the benitez. I even know why Jose Benitez is called 'pineapples', why biskit will never ever say 'yay, rendezvous' again, and why Ronnie Benitez is like a russian submarine.
The only reason I don't leave this server is cos i connect with my friends, and lets be honest here, shoot them.
for the love of all things holy don't take my friends toy's away. there will be nothing but hollow victories, and BOTH shooter and shot will look for a sense of achievement and satisfaction elsewhere. Space engineers anyone?
), they are spread out all over the server, and truth be told, get along as well as cats tied into a sinking bag. I could see the zoners coming back stronger from this, but maybe only if they fragmented further, and had each base as their home turf. this is the same as the sairs have done. the benitez (i seem to bethe sole survivor of an apocalypse), the sails and the tbh get along well by joining up with each other when it suits, and sticking to our own kniiting elsewise. i could totally get behind a fragmented zoner faction with tags like (fp1) or (fp4), and their ill-fated caps named (fp7), in memorium, ad salutem, ergo bibendum.