I heavily dislike and disagree with the opening up of any Zoner ID to sirius wide trade options. I am sorry but it would be a regression back to the bad old days where 99% of traders flew the Zoner ID because of the unprecedented freedom and pretty much universal neutrality that it entailed.
If you open up the Zoner ID to trading with houses again, you will see a sharp rise in powertrading indies and consequently a sharp rise in anti zoner sentiment in the community yet again, because of the simple fact that the Zoner ID will once again kill all the corporations and their activity, and by consequence many pirate factions who rely on corporations as well.
I will oppose that measure as much as I can.
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Other than that the idea looks interesting, but there used to be another idea in this place: mainly to split the Zoner NPC faction into several subfactions based on regions. As we know, Zoner stations are spread across all of Sirius, but also are kind of clumped in together in independent regions. Logic therefore follows that some of those Zoners would have greater contact with some Zoners than other ones. Rather than implementing a Sirius wide rep for all, instead split it up into sub groups:
- Gran Canaria Zoners - all Omega freeports
- Tau Zoners - all Tau freeports
- Omicron Zoners - all Omicron freeports
- Independent World Zoners - Bering, Kepler, Pennsylvania freeports
This can allow certain groups of Zoners to have appropriate reputation adjustments based on their dealings in the area. So for example Omicron Zoners could have a no docking policy for Outcasts and Hessians based on their close proximity to and a great threat from the Corsairs, etc.
All of these Zoner groups would of course be allied to one another to denote their common origins.
It seemed like a nice idea at the time it was proposed but it was blocked by the dev team back then. Perhaps if you want to reorganise the Zoners, it is time to revisit this?
