Zoners

[Karlotta]

tl;dr - don't change the ship. Change how players use them to fit the intent.

And here's the sentence that's at the root of 80% of discovery's problems again.

You tell people to try and magically change the (typical human) behavior of all the players doing something, and to keep trying that for every new player for the years to come. But you don't want to change the one game aspect that is causing.

The reason this keeps happening is because this is what the devs made a colony ship:

The best ship to do something that a colony ship isn't supposed to do. It's better at farming nomad BS remains than an Osiris because nomad BSs spawn at a range that makes it impossible to dodge their shots in anything larger than everything too weak to kill them alone.

The reason players use the Nephs to farm nomad Battleship remains and enforce NFZs around Freeports is because it's the best ship to do that. It's not because they're stupid, it's not because they're evil, it's not because they think colony ships should be sent into battle. And even if those players were that stupid and evil, there's nothing you can do to change that, and there's nothing you can do to keep similar players from coming.

What you CAN easily do, however, is turn a few battleship turret mounts into transport turret mounts and maybe buff their hull to compensate.

That will keep people from sending colony ships into battle.

That will keep it possible for Zoner players to RP as colony ship.

That will make if possible for the mobile colony to enter house space for RP purposes.

That will make the Neph a rare ship.

And IF Zoners really absolutely need a Battleship, turn their Carrier into a BS, or let them use their trade partner's BS, or make the special zoners who need a BS but think other zoners shouldnt use them write SRPs to get other faction's BSs, or make a new Zoner BS that isn't a colony ship at the same time.

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