If any of our actions really caused problems in whatever way for not involved players i am really sorry, that surely was not our intention.
We all try to have fun and RP zoners the way we think they should be. Most zoners simply try to avoid all kind of problems and stay out of any trouble even if it is directly affecting them. We chose to be different, to be another way of zoners, but it is not because we all like shooting (my only char is a diplomatic vessel).
We really think our way of behaviour is not so against the zoner way, it only is very different from the official factions.
The "snub craft" issue: Daedric you are right. We have one kusari luxury yacht, two (?) gunboats and all the rest are cruisers and battleships. not one fighter / bomber so far. Why is that?
Well one reason surely is that we (the core of us) played freelancer since the beginning of 2005 on a PvP server.
Believe me we know every little screw of an eagle and we did not come here to keep on flying them.
Having these huge ships gives a complete new feeling to all this. They look just great.
The other point is the usage of bombers: i really dont want to offend any bomber pilots now, but 5-10 bombers shooting on one battleship just to kill it after 10 minutes or more is...from my point of view...poor (did not want to say pathetic).
Why using 10 ships when the job could be done with for example two big vessels in 1-2 minutes?
But every member is free to choose if he likes to have a fighter or bomber so maybe one day there will be a little ori :D
I think we need to discuss what we are doing with all our members and maybe you are right and zoners is just not the right thing for us. Yet i want to say again we really did thought about us and zoner roleplay and we did not find it completely wrong.