While I am not - and never will be - a Zoner player, I think the biggest problem here is that some ships are just going away. While I personally think giving the Zoners a tradeship line and reducing the cap population is, in itself, good, I don't think replacing the two Juggies (or whatever they are, you know - the Persephone and the other) is just a bad call.
My guess? Leave the two alone. Replace the Nephilims with appropriate colony ships, make Aquilons strictly SRP - based, as the "Pride of the Zoners". This leaves us with a fleet of btransports, Q-ships (QQ-ships?) and a few powerful ships with strong RP buildup. I don't say that everyone is happy, but come on!
All of you guys just ranting around, biting each other's feet, pulling legs of the dev team... Why can't you just work on a compromise of sorts? It'd give you a chance to get something done, improve the server and NOT spread hate and flame on the community!
While I never had an issue with this zonerzonerzoner meme (it's all mythical for me), If it's sucha big problem - work it out and don't do things like you just did.
