Pirates Docking on Our Bases

[TLI-Inferno]

Zoners are becoming the worst faction for haulers. We're treated as though we're enemies by every faction, even though we're only neutral. We can't dock our own transports in house space, and our capital ships can't even fly to our own bases, since we have to go through house space to get to them. And to make things worse, we're still pirated by everyone.

I can understand having some limitations as Zoners, but when these drawbacks don't come with any perks, it makes being a Zoner pretty awful.

Most pirating factions are neutral or friendly to Zoners, such as Lane Hackers, Liberty Rogues, Outcasts and Corsairs. We let them dock on our bases. Meanwhile, they still charge us 10,000,000 credits per transport whenever they see us. We're not just liberty transports slapping on a Zoner ID and expecting a free ticket; we're Zoner Whales, with Zoner IDs, Zoner IFFs, with Zoner escorts, heading to Zoner bases. We provide them with places to dock; they use our bases to escape authorities. And then they pirate us.

Sometimes they even use our own bases to pirate us. There has been a time when I was flying to one of our bases, and then they launched from the base, saw me, and destroyed me before I could reach the base to dock.

This just isn't right, for them to be able to dock on our bases, and then kill us.

There are only two ways to fix this. One, is to make anyone who can dock on Zoner bases no longer allowed to pirate Zoners who have both the ID and a Zoner ship. The other is to simply make criminals not allowed to dock on Zoner bases.

Considering who the zoners are, the latter would ruin our neutrality, so I suggest simply making criminals not allowed to attack or pirate Zoners who are flying Zoner ships. The Zoner ship requirement is to prevent people from simply slapping on a Zoner ID for a free ride.

The second problem is engagement. Criminals are destroying Zoners. We're neutral to them; they should not be allowed to engage our ships when we are not engaging them. A Zoner destroyer was attacked this morning by lane hacker bombers. He killed them in self defense, but they shouldn't have attacked him in the first place.

We're being treated like criminals by houses, not even being allowed to dock transports in their space, and then the real criminals still attack us. Instead of being neutral with everyone, Zoners might as well be hostile to everyone. The only difference is that they can attack us, and we're not allowed to defend ourselves until after they've hit us with the first SNAC.