the old server has gone, and has been replaced with this one. Gallia, Pobs, JD's, Cloaks..... too many toys, given too quickly, and this is the result. I'd say that the long lead time to implement these trinkets also lead to a lot of players leaving from ennui. Perhaps that includes yourself, but maybe not, as I spot a custom user title up there, Mr overuser of fake accents. Do you have an alt account that is perhaps more well-known?
whilst you raise some good points, you have glossed over some salient facts:
1. Jinx is not viewed in a favourable light by the zoner community: as i understand it he decided to close a faction without consultation of his members. High-handedness is not admirable
2. There has been no process of negotiation. this is not a bomber nerf, but a retconn. This is not a cruise drain, but the abject and total deletion of several thousands of hours of game lore
3. It may well be entirely coincidental, but Kazinsal's rejection of a corvo is too timely for some to ignore
4. the Zoners are not a trading faction, they are a plot device. They are neutral in SP campaign for the simple reason that if the freeport had belonged to the GMG, for example, the gmg would have completed all of the single player campaign before trent had been given jumpgate access to magellan. The zoner faction of the past (i say this with some reticence, as I believe that the zoner factions f the future will be entirely different) have manfully struggled against their twin problems of thier neutral stance and their relative diaspora. no other faction has so few allies to call upon, with the possible exception of the corsairs, and no other faction is as spread out, meaning that they cannot call upon their friends, nor their teammates to protect them. Partly due to this, and partly due to their access to some staggeringly beautiful toys, they had caps, and for a long time (read: years) the zoner caps had never been a problem. Until recently, when entirely coincidentally, a dev was refused a cap ship.
5. when you capitalise a word, it becomes a noun. one can be a Duke, or one can duke it out. one can duck around, or one can actually be a Duck. Whilst im willing to still give you the benefit of the doubt (disregarding your custom user title for a moment), could you in fact clarify if you are just being a massive Duck? If the latter, i would ask you if you are akumabito, who showed similar erudition in his phraseology. You could of course be Karlotta, but those alts get spotted quite quickly.
6. Finally, to evince my interest in this matter, I will categorically state that I once owned a corsair cruiser, which got deleted after inactivity, and I have never zonered in my life. My interest in this is solely self-protectionism. If they will retconn the zoners caps, what will they do to the GMG? the LN? the BAF?
