Blunt Wrote:Imprison anyone that is currently involved in any conflict who lands on their bases. This is the easiest way to maintain neutrality.
~Become isolationists~

Or give up neutrality.
Suggestion #2: Kick the Corsairs out, and give the Mollys the Corsair land on GC

Linkus Wrote:~(In effect)~ Mobilize. Defend ourselves. Etc.
Suggestion #2: Kick the Corsairs off of GC
#3: VERY simple solution:

Bounty stays.
Zoners deal with it.

Blue Spawn Wrote:Convert/give the Corsair population on GC Zoner citizenship to resolve the gripes about harboring pirates.

Spear Wrote:Compromise, Zoner's should refuse Corsair (perhaps all faction's in order to not to offend Corsairs) ships of war docking rights on Gran Canaria, in return for Bretonian assurances that Zoner right to free trade remains unchanged and it's ships are unmolested in Bretonia.

In RP I can see Bretonian concerns that Corsair forces are being launched from a Zoner planet, this compromise seems like a diplomatic solution that still maintains Zoner neutrality with no actual commercial cost to them.

Lucend Wrote:I would like to add another option to the list provided in the original post.

The Zoners should do what they usually do in these circumstances and TALK TO PEOPLE. The great thing about the Zoners is that many factions in the edge worlds depend on them for survival. Without Gran Canaria under Zoner control, many factions would lose quite a bit of investment.

Ktayn Wrote:... If you go by canon, it seems the Zoners should kick the Corsairs out to build a base elsewhere in the system, yes? (Page 5 for full post)

XTriton Wrote:I suggest that we all just let the QCP go ahead with their little RP, We will continue to stay the same, which is what most people really want. It was ok and fun the way it was so why change? QCP want to attack Zoners then thats their right as long as they keep it to RP and not pvpwhoring.

Let them whorse their little voices over corsairs in GC until everyone just decides to ignore them. Because no one really had a real reason to hate Zoners in the first place and that will never change no matter how much they might want that.

Lucend Wrote:I think we're loosing perspective here.

Yes, we know. The QCP are no longer officially BAF. (or at least in RP) However, the Zoners do not care. They are Bretonians in Bret ships ... blah blah. From the perspective of the Zoners, there is no difference between BAF coming in and shooting and QCP doing the same.

If the crown could actually distance themselves and try to round them up, or just stop them from shooting Zoners, then that would be seen as a peaceful and productive measure. The lawful Bretonian forces standing still and letting this happen is proof, however wrong, that they are conspiring.

That could be another solution to this problem, is getting the lawful portion of the Crown to restrict their movements to just in Kusari. I know, that makes interdiction that much harder, but that's why the Privateers are the best of the best, matey.

Magoo! Wrote:Anyways, my proposition, since some people seem to be missing various points provided by various people, that the Zoners outlaw the QCP from any system with a Zoner base in it. In that I mean that we find and gun them down if they mosey into one of our systems. Since, as has been established, they aren't under the Crown's control and are thus just a group of no-name pirates to anyone but themselves.

' Wrote:Evolve perhaps.

I really do fail to see the problem with the bounty though.
The Zoners have enough strength and allies to defend themselves against pretty much anything. I witnessed that first hand in Omega 49 yesterday.
It's like the Rogues placing a bounty on the LN. Of course they may get shot at but anyone who takes up the bounty gets anihilated if the LN see em again.

So yes, the Zoners should use their famed 'power and influence'. Instead of complaining about the bounty itself.

' Wrote:Zoners can't give up neutrality because it's embedded roleplay.

Imprisoning anyone who is at conflict would mean imprisoning everyone, because everyone is at conflict with someone.

Freeports are called that for the very reason that they are free to anyone.

The Corsairs living on Gran Canaria issue may be solved if all members living on the planet become Zoner citizens. I'm not sure how Corsair players would feel about this, but it seems natural for such a thing to happen.
Zoners, by definition, are people that fled their Houses. The Bretonians and Corsairs living on Canaria have seperated themselves from their homeworlds. This by definition makes them Zoner.

' Wrote:Eject the Corsairs from Gran Canaria. Spoken from a Molly perspective.
They committed genocide when they viciously thermonuked, leaving our homeland as a wasteland.
The Mollys would be very interesting in the fate of the Corsairs on GC, let's put it like that.