Corsair - Zoner

[DAnvilFan]

You can just go to hell.

Yes. What better way to prove that you've not disgraced the memory of somebody who promoted kindness and love than to say the above.

Please point out where I said I would like to make your playing time horrible.

I didn't take your quote out of context, but perhaps I misunderstood it. If you meant to give people an example of how not to behave in-game, then I take it back. Perhaps you meant to say, "Sure. You could 'win' by trolling players and frusterating them into submission, but that's not the thing to do." However, it sure didn't read that way and sounded like you were providing a solution to a problem.

People like to refer to me as a Zoner because it's the only faction I spoke for on the forums. What most people don't know is that I played Order and Nomad characters for a year. What I learned is that, for the most part, when the two sides met in space they weren't trying to win by "trolling" or "lowering morale." Their goal wasn't even to win (except of course during dog fights) it was to play a role.

So when "where did it run?" says that "It's not a game if there is no winners and no losers," I'd like to know how this works in situations where players are playing both sides? Because I did play both sides - had a blast doing it - and never concerned myself with who was winning or losing.

Bingo! Now if the majority of the Zoner playerbase would realize this things would be much better down there for them. That has been OSI's game all along and we're doing just fine.

The only thing that the Zoner playerbase needs to realize is the same thing any other playerbase needs to realize: which is that nobody made the wrong choice. The Zoners in Omicron Theta reacting differently from the way OSI is reacting is also not wrong. The players in Omicron Theta are doing "just fine" as well.

Surely you must be having a terrible time playing the game if nobody considers the Zoners neutral anymore! Surely you must be winning if you're on good terms with an aggressor!

For Pete's sake, people roleplayed the destruction of Freeport biodomes, then the exile of ZTC, followed by a month long forum event where folks struggled to survive on a crippling Freeport 9. It was the most fun I had on the server that year. And you know, players didn't do it because they were trolled into submission. They did it because they were having a good time. You could call that a "win" and I wouldn't argue.