Information about upcoming Zoner changes

[Gytrash]

Technology and cash is not an issue. Personnel is.

40,000 people split into dozens of different groups and comprising thousands of individual explorers and anarchists cannot maintain a fleet of battleships. No way, no how.

While your logic is technically sound, you are only looking at the big combined picture.

If you break it down and separate out the officials and indies, and we all know the devs are loathe to do that at all, you will see that the RP behind the official faction's modest fleets have RP logic and reasoning behind them.

TAZ, for example, has only a few BSes (you could count them on one hand). These have various RP reasons why they can be crewed. some have high levels of automation, thereby reducing the needed number of crew to a small amount. Others still, they are RP'd as the captains hiring people to crew it alongside those zoners. again, a bit of automation here as well.

Phoenix, while i dont know for sure i'd assume they'd be similar.

so the official ships are not lore breaking. The lore would, and does, allow for the existance of the zoner caps just not in the numbers we see in game (see below for explanantion)

im sure some indie caps are RP'd in similar ways.

Yes, the hordes of indie caps are lore breaking. but that is due to admin/dev policy regarding indies and caps, and simple mechanics of them being freely available.

combining all zoners in an attempt to justify this proposal are therefore flawed, in the same way as devs combining 2 different poll options, just to attempt to justify their actions.
so there are two loical courses of actions available to the devs:

1. follow Drrobe's suggestion to adapt decisions to gel with lore (plenty of ways to do this have been suggested before)

or

2. buff zoners (infocards, etc) to match what exists now so, again, it gels and makes sense. that means fixing zoner population numbers among other things
-Sabre

Also Kaz. Gran Canaria alone has between 500 and 800 thousand on it.And that's only after a retcon that didn't make much sense. I'll address that in my megapost.