Information about upcoming Zoner changes

[Thyrzul]

I asked the outcasts, having seen CL corvos. Their response being "yeah sure" is not *me* powergaming, if it's powergaming at all.

Sure, I didn't say you were powergaming, you weren't, it would have been problematic from their side because as far as I know only devs are above factions when it comes to deciding who gets their own tech and who doesn't, meaning that a non-zoner should have even less saying in who gets a zoner ship and who doesn't than a non-top-guy zoner. But in the same time I assume you should have known this as well.

As for the second part of your post, I agree with you totally, the lore behind those caps is fishy at best, but then caps existed, and in many occasions roleplay behind them as well. What are you gonna do now? Tell Doc to shove his Med Force Enterprises up where the sun doesn't shine? There is stuff you can't retcon that easily, and that's why we still have Gallia and that part of playerbase who put effort into Gallia. Because yes, there is a part of the playerbase who put effort into Gallia, even if it was a bad decision, just like how there is a playerbase who put effort into using Zoner caps as what they were intended to be, RP devices. Collectively punishing all and everyone is just as wrong as collectively doing nothing at all, jumping from one absolute to the other, seemingly without considering middle ways.*

And then I read all these complaints from zoners that basically none of them were asked, and then I read these responses from the dev team, mostly Jinx tho, that they were indeed asked, and such a situation raises a lot of questions.

*And here comes my proposal: Restrict capital vessels to official factions only: it would be the reward to be in an official faction as well as a responsibility for officials to keep numbers as authentic as possible. Gives a bit more perks to the already totally nerfed official factions and an alternative to control the problematic usage of the cap line.

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