Quote:I do not like zoners using their caps on an aggressive way, because that is not what I've learnt and experienced from other zoners, that's not what I've read in zoner lore and various infocards suggesting neutrality and diplomatic skills, and most importantly, that's not what the line on the Zoner ID restricting all combat to self defense suggests to me.
Based on what I've read, the current Zoner war had plenty RP behind it - that being that one section of Zoners (ZA) were being told by the Order to halt their harvesting of Nomad remains, which they refused. This led to 2 things:
1. Other Zoner groups allied with the Order started attacking ZA ships
2. ZA bases guarding jump holes in Omicron-74 started shooting everybody.
This particular situation, in my opinion, should not be a driving force or issue at all behind restricting Capship usage, because to me it seems all of the problems in this situation are RP-based, not ship-use based. And those players who are abusing their IDs should be sanctioned/Bastilled until the situation is taken care of. Otherwise...I've never seen the Omicrons so active, nor the Zoners so stirred up before. It's about time they did something useful with all those Juggernauts.
Now, ZonerZonerZoner aside, have we not already had discussions before about official factions being able to take control of Indie players flying their IDs and Capships? If there are Liberty indies flying Dreads around doing lolwuttery, players can just as easily file a complaint on the forum, and ask the LN| to shoot these buggers mercilessly if they see them being lolwuts in their ZOI, right?
That seems like a better option than taking away rights/ships from other players who are otherwise not being lolwuts or breaking any rules.
Quote:More powertrade, powermining. Players will just spend more time in silent trade and mining. Those players who collecting money for something, aren't very great RPers in generaly, especially when they are halted by pirate. Do we rly need it?
Well, why not do some power-Pirating on all these power-players then? Your actions FORCE interaction. If a guy doesn't care about interacting with you while you pirate him, then you BLOW HIM AWAY without remorse. End of story. These are the lolwuts you don't care about anyways, right?
I'm sorry that some people only have the mentality that every interaction between players on this server must somehow end in a 40 minute/ 20+ page romance novel, but RP or not, people aren't on this server because they want to write a book.
As much as the "old-timers" might be mourning the lack of RP nowadays and the server dying, etc, you need to have a balance rather than just screwing either the PvP community or the RP-only community.
