Corsair - Zoner

[Mímir]

Yeah alright, I understand that. Non-communication does make RP impossible and serves more as a total disrupting factor than an atmosperic one in reality.

Thanks for answering my total off-topic questions, but I really think you ought to coordinate your efforts in a council though - it makes no sense that one FP admin says one thing, and another says another thing - yeah I get it, Zoners are autonomous, but it opens up for metagaming etc. when there is no general code of conduct and superior organ to serve the Zoners as a whole to the extent your different factions can agree. EDIT: I mean with a lack of streamlined communication (for instance which FP's have NFZ's and which doesn't? and so on) it makes it all but impossible to interact with Zoners, unless I spend hours on the forum reading up on how this particular sub-group of Zoners behave in this particular corner of Sirius. It is too much to expect from other people and it just clogs things up unnecessarily. As long as Zoners are one unified body in the repsheet, there should be a somewhat unified Code of Conduct to provide other players a means of understanding and relating to you. Again Zoners act unified when it serves their needs (like an FR5 for someone shooting up a Zoner), but try to act atomized and thus unaccountable when trouble arises, and that just doesn't work. That leads to these bizarre meta-rp situations with no straightforward solutions.

From my perspective - which is not being involved in this in any way but reading the posts with great enthusiasm - this conflict could have been RP'ed out differently that what it is now - a mix of oorp complaining / personal points of views on how other people should have been reacting to your RP and their own backstory mixed with random pewpew vendettas (with a wide assortment of unlikely allies) and raids. It is silly really, as a Zoner-Corsair conflict and the highly relevant question of Zoner neutrality could be an interesting plot conflict all across Sirius, even though it disrupts the plans you have been making. It would open up new possibilites.

Neutrality is a difficult - if not impossible stance - and if diplomacy isn't acted out delicately, this stance cannot be maintained. It is certainly not a stance from where you can launch an aggression or be hardliners in any way. When the results of such actions hit the fan in-RP, it seems - from an outside perspective - that a lot of Zoners resort to OORP forum rage about how things "ought to be" or childish "haha i pew u" threads, and that is a negative development. A ruling body could counter that and find practical solutions to serve both oorp-needs of having a fun time and the ability to choose what kind of RP you want to get involved in, whilst maintaining a diplomatic RP balance with other houses and factions to allow for that.

EDIT: I have been reading those Zoner warmongering posts as well, and I would probably be inclined to act out this conflict like that if I had a Zoner Juggernaut and all, but how the hell is one supposed to consider Zoners as a neutral faction after that???

EDIT 2: Much like the Junker Congress - from what I read - have done theirs to get junkers to fall in line and adhere to a few basic common rules, while still keeping the door open to both lawful and unlawful junkers, you could have a similar governing body that does what it can not to infringe on your individual options and style of RP. It's hard work and requires a lot of attention to convince people within the Zoner community to fall in line, but if your bases and the diplomatic ties you rest your overall faction on is at stake, this seems like the only viable in-RP solution, contrary to a "let's just forget about the whole thing and go back to where we were so we can all have our own fun again" oorp-style solution.

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