Information about upcoming Zoner changes

[Enkidu]

this thread really is more a FYI, and especially those who have ranted or insulted before have disqualified themselves from any reasonable discussion that can be considered.

what and if some capital warships remain is up to the admins at that point. eventually the leviathan can become a typical SRP zoner ship for those zoners who just have to play a big battleship open for anyone who wishes to SRP it.

but the change is going to happen. this is not a decision made just recently - that is the outcome of a decision that has started long ago. it simply takes time to get to a consensus of how the change should happen - and the consensus was made.

we are aware that facing the actual changes opposed to eventual changes or threats of change some time ago, trigger a lot of resistance.

also this is not only about what the zoner players want. it is what any new player thinks of a faction when they come in contact with another faction. when a new player meets a zoner player in any ship - the first thing they should think is what the faction is about ( in disco terms // also yes - i even contacted the original faction dev of freelancer via 7crows to get his idea of what the original idea of zoners was )
do they see warships that are similar to any other faction? do they see transports, do they see hybrids, do they see no capital ships at all? all that determines what they think "the zoners" are. and all that makes up their mind in future interactions with the factions.

we want players to get the proper idea of the zoners - which was by the way promoted by the factions, too - of explorers, mostly peaceful dwellers who still defend themselves but who do not attack others. a faction that relies on their "friends" for serious defense - who solves conflicts diplomatically partly cause they want it, but also cause they MUST.

when it is about reimbursement - that is an admin matter, but i do believe that - for the first time in disco history - there might be a plan to compensate players due to the large scale

and it is a large scale

80 fearless
116 nephilim
124 aquillon
3 leviathan ( i think its 3 now )

so yea - zoners will focus more on their concept of exploration ( with transport classified RP ships ) - but they keep 2 cruisers and a gunboat - which is pretty much more than your average trading faction.
if the leviathan becomes a regular SRP capital class dreadnought, they even keep the freaking full military shipline ( any fighter, GB, CR, DE, [DN] )

unless the ppl who think their RP deserves a capital warship are afraid they won t get it.... .

I assume a considerable amount of RP will go into the (completely random) Zoner development of these massive, newly-found transports? Or did the Daam'Kvosh decide to alter the boundaries of reality?


Jinx, how can you InRply implement this change? If you can't answer that, then don't do such.

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