Following the outbreak of violence between the Republic of Liberty and the Zoners of Pennsylvania, there are a number of adjustments to reputation, ID rules, and roleplay laws that will now be implemented. This announcement is to supersede the FR5 notice here and provide clarification.
We would like to apologize for the confusing and misleading way in which this was handled. It is true that the reputation adjustments were done as a response to an FR5 request by the Zoner Official Factions, but they were not handled as an FR5 and should not be considered one. The following changes are in accordance with the storyline development of this conflict between the house of Liberty and the Zoners.
Liberty Law Change Request passed - Zoners are now listed among hostiles by the Republic of Liberty.
Zoner IDs changed - Zoner ID, Starlight Research Consortium ID, and Omicron Supply Industries IDs have gained the following line:
- Can attack Liberty Police, Military, and Intelligence ships in Liberty House Space and outside of House Space.
The aforementioned Liberty lawful IDs have been made hostile to Zoner IFF, and non-dockable to Outworlder IFF. The aforementioned Zoner IDs have been made hostile to the aforementioned Liberty lawful IFFs.
These changes mean that Liberty law enforcement IDs can treat Zoners as enemies as their ID allows, as can Liberty corporate IDs which have the line "- Can attack ships considered hostile by Liberty." within their Zone of Influence. Zoners can fight back by attacking Liberty law enforcement ships in Liberty or outside of other houses.
Meanwhile, Outworlders and Phoenix are not intended to play a role in this conflict, and cannot attack Liberty ships or be attacked by them under normal circumstances.
Hopefully this clears up the confusion around this conflict.
