Information about upcoming Zoner changes

[Coin]

really kaz?

Yes, really.

So you agree that this retconn is unfair? then why are you pushing for it, despite the results of the recent poll, where twice the number of people vote for keeping the caps in one form or another rather than this change?

you've managed to ignore the question - 'Why are the CL licensed to hand out zoner tech?'

Take your personal vendetta elsewhere.

Oh man, this isn't personal at all. I really don't give a flying truck what you fly. All you had to do was write <rp reason>, and we could have moved on. I cannot stress how much i am indifferent to your personal choice of ship - however, I would like to discover if you have any bulldogNK tendencies. elucidating a reason for the CL to handover the tech would go a long way to assuage these fears.

development thing now is it? a few pages back it was about realism, until it was pointed out that the zoners are a wallpaper faction so SP wouldn't be over before trent got his jumpgate access, and now this is about

if it is decided that going for transparency was indeed a good idea opposed to simply give you the results when its done.

There can be multiple reasons behind a change. Would you rather we just implemented major ship role shifts like this without telling anyone?

the thing is here that you have announced a major role play shift, or retconn, and the players involved are saying 'omg no plox' and they are not being heard. wherein lies the difference?

<final nail snipped>

Or you could just chill out about pixel ships and follow the wise words of dusty's grandma: "she says to be roleplay".

but these aren't pixel ships, but stories. this isn't about pew=fun, but about the semblance of control; with this change you seem to be saying to the players involved 'know your place'. These are people who play games as much as you. the reason why we play a fragile server of a ten-year-old incomplete game is because of the input we canhave in the direction of the mod. However, this is a great big wet fish in the face of that dream. I agree that in WoW or EvE there is next to no PDC, but that is the way that the industry is moving. All else is petty tyranny and empire building.

if you think this is personal, or about pixel ships, well, I'm sorry but your reality check is lost in the post.

I got involved in this one-sided discussion as i am neutral on this affair. I don't own caps (horrible things, fly a titan instead), and I don't zoner. The majority of the people who have an opinion about this either a)zoner b)cap c)both, but the cries of 'cap-whore' and 'I am jealous of your neutrality and enormous zoi' are barely submerged in the rebuttals to their vociferous complaints of how shabbily their dreams have been shattered.

my opinion that this is wrong is based around:

1. politics. both you and jinx should have bowed out of announcing these changes. no man is an island.

2. lore based retconns should be applied evenly, not to one faction

3. gameplay. allowing people to do what they want = PDC = the mod writes itself. making people follow a script = SP

4. development: making people feel that their contribution is valued is very important. I have often heard from devs that the community rants against their contributions. Well, reality check, in RL, if no-one likes your contribution, they do not tell you. you actually have to pay for market research for that to work out why your company isn't making mega-trillions every femtosecond. you don't get paid, true. but you get free bug-fixing (we post reports) and free market research (threads like this). I can see why you feel threatened; follow that line of emotion back to the source. Rot starts at the core.

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