well, its not like there is a short supply on zoners:laugh:- and yes, events should be zoners alone - unless harvesters suddenly explode to like 10:1 in numbers against zoners - but by that time, they d prolly inhabit all sirius core.
after the last battle in 49, its quite clear that zoners are rather too numerous than a rare oddity. - considering we had to queue up to engage; it does not really reflect how zoners should be. - with what we had there ( and it was only a fraction of the zoners on the server ) we could have easily taken a house system and even fight most house factions defense fleet.
but fun anyway - when its about attacks on zoners with people around that rely heavily on zoners supplies, - i d say - its OK to assist, if the zoners in question send out a distress. - ( thats up to the balance of the engagement - but mostly, zoner transports will simply retreat - and retreating can be done alone ) - in the end its up to the factions that may or may not assist. - it is one thing to assist against the keepers - another thing to assist vs. an "inner zoner problem"