Zoners

[Lythrilux]

And Red Hessians shouldn't build Blood Diamond Jormungands, Ranseurs should be rare, Core should not have more than ten warships, Corsairs shouldn't have four shipyards and Liberty shouldn't have plot-armor, as people repeat all day. Look at all those people here who never play as Zoners and go all possible ways to limit the Nephs that are horrible warships but present enough to actually provide people with combat targets. They are already the worst heavy battleship, can be easily beaten by any other battleship, and the only true issue is that people use them as the iconic lolwut battleship while eeeevery single other faction has literally the same issue just with less numbers.

If you want to see Nephs vanishing: Log into the game, destroy them. Threads about the Neph are coming up for years, nothing has been done about them and there is absolutely no need to change anything about them. They are bad, giant targets, mostly played by people who just want a big battleship without ZoI. Take them away or nerf them, and people will just start using Ranseurs more because the OC ID is the most liberal unlawful one. The only difference is that the Ranseur is not a colony ship, but people will still lolwut on them like they do right now in Delta.

If you don't want people to farm in Delta and have fun, log a raid and get faction activity. The Nephilim doesn't need any alteration, neither via inRP laws nor in terms of gameplay. If people want to fly around in house space, let them RP for it. Point and case.

I don't see how any of that is relevant.

Having to play roleplay patrol to shoot people doing things they shouldn't really be doing (logic wise) in the first place is silly. It's the same with having to deal with LNS that fly to the Omicrons with the excuse "lol I'm exploring". We shouldn't look at idiocy and solve the problem by just shooting it. These kinds of Zoner nephs aren't really a positive boon. They're an annoyance.

I would much rather see people farming in Core or Order ships. Not only does it actually make sense, but it'll contribute more positivity to roleplay and activity in both the short-term and the long term.

I feel like nothing has been done because it's a tedious change. Consistently, there has been overwhelming support for something to be done. The Dev team just hasn't made it a priority.

The only other type of change that could be applied to stop this silliness would be to limit the caps to the official factions and perhaps make the Neph SRP. I don't think this would be fair to people who already own it.

If the gun hard points change what's the impact? If you're role-playing the ship properly, this shouldn't affect that. It doesn't need to have Battleship weapons to defend itself, and perhaps the trade off for converting to (i.e) cruiser weapons could be extra CM slots.

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