A few zoners does nothing else than: Zoning. travelling from port to port, with ,,rp loot,, like living persons in the (modified)cargo hold and just having fun on stations or Rping while doing so.
In most cases the ,,zoner passangers,, are refugees or their equivalents. People from different systems who decided to NOT live among their old shackles.
Why would someone become a ,,zoner,, if he did not born to that? Why?
a few answers: they got enough of their old place cause of problems/owerpopulation/lack of fun/too mutch fun and seeks for a spot what tehy can call own even if its only a gitano lf.
My suggestion:
fill up every imaginable problematic place (aka confront zones) with ,,refugees,, name them to ,,wannabe zoners,, or something but definately not ,,zoner workers,, (give scra ,,workers,, as commodity and leave the freedom of zoners- Yes Iron, maybe your zoners are dirty cog-workers, but thats not even 0.1 percent of the zoner population so....*shhhh) to let people escape from there and start new life. Explorers if you like the term better than refugee. But hell not Dockworkers and mechanists only. Not soul-dead people in brown and grey clothes please....
so: dozens of locations (in problematic or already zoner palces).
Please if its possible:Put not only 1 or 2 but several lille humans on the picture of the new commodity in colourful clothes (f.e.: put a refugee and a vacationer pack together add a tourist and voila' you have complete zoner family what wish to start a new life). And put dozens of locations where they could find a place, and remove the ,,highestprofitinnotime,, ideas.
(If someone wants to make huge cash there are a lot better alternatives than transing zoner refugees (aka. zoner passangers). Thisway the Zoner Passanger could stay for good and colourful rp commodity instead of a widely sellable VIP clone.
Ofc its not a prob if we will end with profit but still, it should be more than a ,,thing to transport,,
Sorry again for my bla-bla.
wish you good luck, and I hope you find a good sollution for most of the zoners.
Cheers and thanks for reading this crap-of-mine threw.