Information about upcoming Zoner changes

[Trogdor]

Gytrash, I have told you what you could do to improve your chances of keeping your Zoner caps. In fact, I've asked the Zoner leaders to provide links to any lore in the past years connected with those ships that would justify keeping them.

That was four days ago, and I have received almost nothing. I'm beginning to wonder if there is any lore justification at all. I'm trying to find some reason to advocate for you, but instead of giving me something to work with, you insist on arguing non stop in thread after pointless thread. By doing so, you have utterly destroyed any sympathy I have for the Zoners.

I will encourage you one last time to stop ranting on the forums about it and take mature productive steps that I've already advised you to take. Instead of telling us how removing Zoner caps will destroy your lore, show us. Because, as of this moment, I see no lore to be ruined. And I don't mean the retconned version of lore you are currently working on. I'm talking about past lore that will be irreparably harmed by the removal of these ships. Give the Devs something to consider. Give the Admins something to advocate for. Enough of these rants on the forums. I told you already they were pointless and self defeating.[/color]

I am not a Zoner leader but,
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=107207
I have put quite a bit of effort into writing this story. I took a break from it over the holidays to deal with some RL drama, but I have every intention of continuing.
It references events which I am not sure is considered OSI canon - the whole "Zoner terrorist invisible cruise missile attack" on an SCRA station - or if they decided to retcon that whole story because it was kind of ridiculous.
Either way, my Neph is an integral part of the story. I had planned to incorporate references to the model, and think up how the ship could be retrofitted for war. The Cheat was to manipulate The Commonwealth and other civilian R&D into developing these upgrades.

All of this will be poopcanned if my Neph is turned into a transport, and I am ill inclined to write this story on your schedule to meet the check-in requirements of a SRP. I also don't want the extra scrutiny. There's already enough sankshun anxiety associated with flying a non-merchant Zoner.

But seriously. Garrett, Kaz, Jinx. This is ridiculous. Instead of trying to take everyone's toys away, and making a bunch of people furious in the process, why don't you adjust the lore/mod in such a way that justifies the toys, stimulating activity?
I already brainstormed a plan to do this. It was beautiful. It gave the Zoners something to do with their caps without making the Zoners as a whole into a Sirius-wide empire. It promoted interaction/conflict (=activity) with groups all over Sirius, large and small. And it moved the 'core' of Zoner-dom far away from the Corsair's backyard and into neutral territory.
But it was shot down because it involved the Zoners moving into Cayman, which you guys apparently already had plans for, because you don't want to add any more bases. But surely something else could be done instead.
If you want to add those new ships as new ships, great. But nerfing the Zoners into political obscurity is only going to harm the community. What are we supposed to do the next time the Sairs or SCRA go 'lol we take ur base'? Run to the forum and cry 'Y u no rp your weakness'?

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