Information about upcoming Zoner changes

[Sath]

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

under what rubric do the outcasts get to hand out zoner tech?

I have nothing against Zoners, nor would I have anything against Zoners having capital fleets if their lore allowed for it. Unfortunately, the Zoners are not a nation, or a faction, but rather a label for those groups and individuals who exist outside the confines of the houses and their governments. And trying to maintain a fleet of battleships without a central authority and a whole network of shipyards and defense contractors just doesn't work.

this is lame-duck RP reasoning. Kaz, the zoner cap fleet has been around since ever, and you *NOW* decide to retconn them as they cannot, in rp, sustain them

i've asked this question before, and you've managed to overlook it. Will this line of RP-based reasoning be used to delete the cap ships of other factions? Should the hessians be worried? the outcasts? the corsairs?

This is the thin end of the wedge when it comes to brute-force imbalance of LORE over GAMEPLAY, which is not how the gaming industry has grown from the elites of yesteryear to the multi-billion dollar global phenomenon that it is today. Games are supposed to be enjoyable, and this requires balance. if there are too many zoner caps, raise the prices on them to make people mine and trade for longer to be able to afford them, but give official faction players a discount on their purchase so as to encourage the development of the community. There are very very few long term players who have remained indies here - when you join a faction, it is for the advantage of combined activity.

The job of the developers is to develop the game. We like shiny new toys, and pretty much every ship that jinx is a thing of beauty. But beautiful-looking ships are not the totality of the gaming experience. The starflea could be the best looking ship, ever, but the stats on it make it so fragile that we now get given freighters at restart.

Fragility of the starflea is balanced by the eye-ball wrenching agility. Capital ships firepower and armour are balanced by their lack of CD and the fact that they turn like a brick, and are easy prey for a bomber duo. Transports? meh. They are not fast enough (considering that they have less armour than gunboats), they are less agile, and they generally have hideous blind spots that can hide a VHF so the turrets cannot get them.

If, as you say, this is to restrict Zoner caps, are all other caps going to be similarly treated, across the board? because that would be balanced and equable. As it stands, the 'punishment' of indy cap use is being applied to the wrong people - the faction players who are your loyal customers. It takes 13 times more effort to gain a new customer than it does to retain an exisiting one. This unilateral deletion of ships has fostered intense bad feeling, which actively hinders players' desire to remain members of the community. Just think for a second, and kick in the empathy gland. "what would i think if this was being done to me?"

Man,you make some good valid points.Sad that they dont understand that.Kudos to ya.