The Truth about Zoners

[Jansen]

Some story progress would be nice. The downside to all of that neutrality is that nothing happens. It may be the Zoner ideal to have no enemies, but actually having no enemies is boring. Great for traders, not so great for protectors.

Work on it ingame or on the forums instead of crying here, that kind of thing is best done by doing RP with others, then show that RP to the Admins/Devs so that they actually see which way you would want the faction to go. If you just Q_Q around here on how everyone dislikes you, nothing will change as its not really productive.

Furthermore, the Zoner npc faction needs some love. In order for our shipline and other technology to make sense, the Zoners need to be percieved as a unified faction, and not as a loosely affiliated group of communities. And we need an official faction that represents the npc faction, in the same way most other official factions do. We used to have this, but it fell apart after we lost Mal, and ever since that time we've been fighting a near constant war to justify the existence of our tech. Since then, our official factions have mostly tended to their own well-being, and involved themselves very little in the affairs of the whole. This is a problem because it is the whole that justifies what the faction has accomplished.

You cant imagine how much fun it was to work with the official Zoner factions when it came to the justification of having your ships. The only one that in my eyes really contributed to the whole thing and wrote some lore ideas down was a permabanned member, go figure.

I don't want to piss on anyone, but it's difficult not to get angry when the faction I love is the butt of so much ridicule. We need to resolve the above issues before the trolling and QQ will finally go away.

Exactly, you have to do this. There wont be a white knight coming out of nowhere suddenly making Zoners cool. If you have good ideas with enough justification to back them up, its not unlikely to get them implemented. (This likely wouldnt include turning the Zoners into a Military faction, but I guess you get what I mean)

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