Information about upcoming Zoner changes

[Echo 7-7]

A comment for the sake of equality:

The proliferation of capital ships by all factions in a mere 20 years is certainly not consistent vanilla production capacities by an order of magnitude (or more). However, the Discovery mod was Igiss' personal vision; it was his to do with what he wanted, and by playing here we've all chosen to accept that. However, we do now recognise that his particular style of storytelling did not provide comprehensive coverage for each faction, or consideration of less tangible elements of lore which did not translate directly to gameplay features. However, one can simply not just "fix everything" overnight, because of the sheer inertia of the mod, and the differences in opinions about how to "fix" the mod.

In other words, while the Zoner players may feel that their wings are being clipped, I would hypothesise that in an ideal situation, a similar demilitarisation would happen across the board. However, there is a saying about the nail that sticks out the most being the first to get the hammer...*

Personally, I would be in favour of having all Battleships only accessible by some regulated system (comparable to a SRP, but perhaps not necessarily quite as detailed). Regardless, I recognise that such a system is simply unfeasible to execute at this point in time.


Aside; it's important to note that IDs are the realm of the Administrators, not the Developers. Yes, there is overlap between the Devs and the Admins, but the two groups are not the same.


*I.E. The Zoners having access to "capital ships" was evidently judged to be one of the worse offenders in this scenario. This doesn't even take into account that the Zoner players in the past haven't been able to agree on what Zoner lore should be, if you ignore the fact they've been given bad cues by previous iterations of the mod.

Addendum: While some factions have become over-inflated, the Zoners are one of the rare instances of current faction lore being completely contradictory to canonical vanilla lore.

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