Zoner Sub Factions.

[Karlotta]

Anyway, I'm curious how the community feels about us spinning out more of these sub-groups of zoners.

I'm for it, but the implementation needs to be better than the Outworlders. The Outworlders got red rep with many player ships that were friendly or neutral to zoners before. Shouldnt be too hard to have a script run over the playerbase files to amend that when such a new faction is first introduced.

Another theoretical mistake one could make in the implementation is that the zoner subgroups could be make hostile or nodock with too many factions. They should remain relatively neutral to others (and each other), just not as much as they are now.

Also, the name "Outworlder" isnt really that fitting of distinguishable from other zoners. Maybe give them names related to the region or freeport they inhabit insteat. For example Omicroners, Omegans, Taurons, Sigmoids.

Another large part of the motivation for separating the zoners into subfactions is that the restrictions that aimed at not making zoners a "unified superfaction" could be removed if they are split. For example the "cant dock 5ks" and "cant be used by non zoners" for the zoner whale.

As for zoner ships, in the same spirit the larger ships could be largely zoner-owned but not zoner-made. The mobile colony, which has a very beautiful and fitting model, could be manufactured by house corporations but designed and built for people who spend a lot of time in the outer regions. Together with that, the mobile colonies should be pretty much dis-armed and in return be allowed to enter and dock in house space.

The laziness (and in some cases selfishness) of past devs, together with the many restrictions they imposed, have been choking gameplay and more interesting+diverse RP for way too long.

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