Assaulting Zoners and OORPness

[Malaclypse 666]

I'm still mulling this, but Duke, get yer facts straight. AW was never "kicked out" of the Zoner Council. I personally reminded them several times that they were still listed as a voting Member. It's not our fault if they choose not to exercise that vote.

And, most of you are correct regarding how Zoners, both npc and PC, would behave if one segment were threatened. Zoners seem to unwittingly follow a prime Discordian Catma: "We must all stick apart!".

I hope that the Zoner Registry has been a useful tool for other factions and players, both lawful and unlawful. Those who want to roleplay a "true" Zoner have made the effort to become registered. It hopefully serves as a "clearinghouse" or database for those who are not sure about a certain vessel's or player's status.

As to the Zoner Council, Eris has kicked my butt several times for even attempting such a thing. I have mixed feelings as to its validity and effectiveness. On internal and inter-faction Zoner policy, perhaps it serves a purpose. On the gripping hand, issues like a Zoner response to the "Nomad threat", and to individual pirate threats, or how to respond to trade restrictions by the Houses or other Factions, have resulted in a lot of hot air, and not much else. Perhaps more work is needed.

As to taking away trading capability from Zoners, which would basically leave us sitting around, guarding freeports and home systems, with our thumbs up various orifices: Nix to that bloody bright idea. I'm perfectly happy with the Zoner ID Infocard as it stands.

I've made the point about pirates who insist on accosting Zoners actually living that RP by making themselves hostile to the Zoner and Zoner Guard npc factions, so I won't belabor that again here. But, yeah, I'd like to see doing Zoners dirt, and then docking on Zoner facilities be a sanctionable offense.

Carry on. You're all doing great. In one sense, this discussion means that Zoner Affilliation has somehow become an institiution... whether a lofty edifice or a nuthouse is in the eye of the beholder.

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Mal

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