Information about upcoming Zoner changes

[Coin]

... the omicrons suffer from activity-loss enough, why strip them even further?

Are the Zoner caps the only thing keeping the Omicrons active? If so...maybe there's more to that problem.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. I shall put it simpler for ye laddie. there are five people in a room. a zoner, a nomad, a bunter, a corsair and an order-player. one of the people leaves. there are now four people in the room. four is less than five. one is not all of five. in fact, it's exactly 20% of five. 20% is not a totality, nor even a majority, so the epithet 'all' cannot be applied. troll question is trollololol.

ln, lsf, lpi, dse, hackers, rogues, xenos, junkers, freelancers, independant pirates, and outcasts are in a room. one of the people leaves. how much decrease, in percentage terms, has the population of the room dropped? has all of the activity gone?

Jinx? can you explain the reasoning behind replacing the caps in a TL-DR format?

Lore, population numbers, and the general individualism and fragmentation of zoners and their splinter groups logically prevents serious work to be done on the design and construction of large capital warships.

Funny, didn't you ask the Contari Lance for Zoner tech after you didn't get that from Zoners themselves?

because the zoner factions started metagaming to protect their capital ships

As an aside, Corvo's not being nerfed. Unless you want it to be, in which case I can make that happen for you.

if this is the case, then take them away from every faction without an inhabited planet. this retconn undoes years of established practice. zoners have had caps for all of my tenure on disco, and everyone has grumbled that they shouldnt have them, and they have always pointed out that the parts can be manufactured in discrete locations, and assembly only needs to happen in one place.

However, this reason given is a lame-duck RP reason. I'd like you to think like a business development executive for a moment here. Zoner caps, popular. taking them away is unpopular. what happens when you take away a popular product from your consumer base?

I'm not really interested in the RP reason, but the RL reason. is the above story true? zoners are being told that because you tried to restrict everyman and his dog from having a zoner cap, they are being taken away from everyone? are you mal-adjusted selfish brats?

I think the dev team needs to sit down together and have an intervention. It's time to stop designing new stuff, and work on fixing the buggy laggy mod that you have created. no more changes, no more storyline advance. 85 was good. skypefriends™ and the tech-sharing was a joke. there are many good things about this current release, but they are being overshadowed by the drama. Time for a reality check - the people that are on the other side of the screen are gamers, just like you, and you are completely trolling them with this nerf to end all nerfs.

remember rule 0.0. the playerbase who fly these ships are against this move, so much in fact that they stress the ability of this forum to contain their words in one post. I don't fly one of these ships - i hate flying caps - but taking away a piece of history out of petty spite is really immature.

I play this game to unwind, to do something different from my RL, where i can get caned,fined, imprisoned, deported and lose my livelihood for crossing the road in the wrong place. Every second i am on the forums is a second that i am not in game. but, spending time actually playing the game means that this kind of dramalancer would pass me by and then when the change is implemented and i say 'wait what?' i would be told 'rtf'.
I'd like to say kudos for having a process of dialogue before the event: this is a good thing, but it needs completion. Merely disbursing information is only the first half; saying 'what we want to do' has to be followed with 'why we want to do it'. And then listen to those affected, and say 'this we can adjust, that we cannot because of x, y, and z'

I;d say having elected developers would have prevented this zoner-saga, as they would need to engage with their electorate (talk to those involved) and explain their policies (deliver beta versions, not rumours of alpha versions), and have more open-ness and transparency about the direction of the development.

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