The Truth about Zoners

[Trogdor]

You see, if Zoners would be no more, the Freelancers would not be subjected to general view. As in, Zoners are currently specific people. While Freelancers are just random people. So if a work broke of around any of the Freeports IFFed as Freelancer station, Freelancers around the Sirius would not be affected. While currently, any Zoner can be blamed for any incident regarding Zoner base.

I'd say it is a win-win.

Why is that desirable? How is that good for the community? Conflict is activity. Diplomacy is activity. This and the suggestions provided by some others turn the Zoners into the equivalent of neutral npcs whom get along with their immediate neighbors and have no pushback on anything going on around them.

This is atrophy. This is part of the community saying, effectively, 'we don't like the Zoners and we don't want them around'. Well, there are some factions I don't like, but I know there are other members of the community who do like playing as those factions, and so I don't go into their threads and start defecating everywhere. If you think the Zoners should be removed or nerfed in this way, you'd better bring a good reason to the table. And so far, I haven't seen it.

The Zoners are not a new thing we are thinking up. They are already here, and have been here for a long time. There are mountains of roleplay involving them. These sorts of changes would take all of that and toss it in a landfill. I don't think that's a line of thought that we should be pursuing.

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